7C Mission Statement

The following is the official charter and mission statement of the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition

1. Provide national leadership for directing and using computer technologies for writing.
2. Continue to sponsor and present workshops, panels and demonstrations at CCCC and NCTE-sponsored conferences, including regular organization at CCCC national conferences of a software sampler room -- with hands-on demonstrations and qualified consultants present.
3. Survey colleges and universities to provide a directory of resources, hardware, and software available and in use.
4. Support continuity in the annual Computers-in-Writing [sic] Conferences, by coordinating the search for a sponsoring university and the transfer from site to site, maintaining mailing lists and other records, providing advice and logistical support for the conference planners, and assisting in publicizing the conference.
5. Serve as resource personnel: promoting bibliographies, journals and publications related to computers in writing; promoting the purchase and use of all NCTE publications relating to computers.
6. Assist practitioners nationwide in using and evaluating software, including work to generate a database on all computer-writing software available, its uses, and its effectiveness.
7. Coordinate the efforts of the members of the Computer Committee with the initiatives of other groups (such as the NCTE Instructional Technology Committee).