Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC

Abstract

When I was invited to run for office in CCCC, like all candidates I had to put together a short statement of principle or belief for the ballot — a kind of mini-stump speech where I would set out my sense of the organization and its mission. This was a hard piece to write — “what I believe” in 200 words — and particularly hard for me since (frankly) I thought no one ever read them, that when the ballots came in the mail, people looked at the pictures, read the c.v., and pitched the rest.