The Conference on College Composition and Communication recognizes that disabled people “have been oppressed and continue to be relegated to the margins.” As part of its Policy on Disability, Cs affirms that it strives to go “beyond the minimum standards” to “acknowledge the right of full inclusion for all members of society.” But even so, access can be complicated and full inclusion, elusive. The disability and rhetoric listserv was abuzz in March when scholars attending Cs discovered that CART, the service they depend on for access to the conference, would be changing from previous years. CART (which stands for Communication Access Realtime…
Author: Jim Purdy
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James P. Purdy is an associate professor of English and director of the University Writing Center at Duquesne University, where he was awarded the 2016 McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. He has also won several awards for his scholarship, including the 2011 Ellen Nold Award for the Best Article in Computers and Composition Studies and the 2008 Kairos Best Webtext Award (both with Joyce R. Walker) as well as two awards at the Independent Publisher Book Awards for volumes he co-edited with Randall McClure, the Bronze Medal in the Education Theory/Commentary Category for The Next Digital Scholar: A Fresh Approach to the Common Core State Standards in Research and Writing in 2015 and the Silver Medal in the Education Theory/Commentary Category for The New Digital Scholar: Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students in 2014.