Below we outline our ongoing programs and projects, which includes some new goals aligned with out proposed plan for our 2024 annual meeting.
Programs
- Mentorship Program
- WROC and Write events: We will continue these low-stakes writing meetings, which have been so important individually to keep ourselves accountable and carve out time to write. But, it also has been a way to build our community, as well as share our ideas and questions with each other.
- WROC Shops: We want to spread your knowledge and skills! Reach out to us if you want to put on a workshop that can also be placed under the banner of our subfield!
- CCCC Annual Conference Meeting: Continue our vision to work towards CCCC Standing Group status, so we can guarantee a sponsored panel each year.
Projects
Many of the projects below are meant to communicate how we, as a field, have been and are continuing to do WROC work. The website has been a pivotal piece for us to communicate our research and teaching presence for ourselves and to others across the discipline.
- Update our Mission Statement/Principles Statement with the past 2 years of meeting notes as material to inform our directions and plans.
- Annotate and add to our Bibliography. This is also our proposed focus of the 2024 4Cs SIG meeting.
- Publish members' teaching information and course descriptions to promote and make our contributions more visible. This has been a long-time goal among our members from the beginning.
- Document officer roles and create onboarding documentation to help make explicit the vision and logistics of SIGWROC for any incoming leadership.
Other Goals
Among and across the above projects and programs, we hope to accomplish the following goals:
- Increase our members
- Build community through our low-stakes programs that strategically build on work and projects that members are already doing.
- Keep establishing ethos within the discipline
- Hold a symposium in the future (5-year plan perhaps)
If you have any questions or want to get involved with any of the plans outlined above, please feel free to contact Chris Lindgren at lindgren@vt.edu.
Thank you all!
Sincerely,
Chris Lindgren | Chair and Founder of SIGWROC