Harris, Joseph. “From the Editor: The Work of Others.” CCC 45 (1994): 439–41.

• This piece is a meditation on the new editor of CCCs in 1994 on the ethics involved with citation of student work and other forms of writing.  There is an explicit directive in this piece that instructors must “get written permission from any student whose work you wish to include in an article for CCC” (440).  In other words, this is the first time that a directive comes directly from the chair of the discipline’s flagship journal requiring informed consent of student work.
• The editor also hopes that researchers will allow responses from the researched about their work before sending to publish.
• There is not a need – according to the editor – to publish students in the works cited of the document researchers create.  Perhaps this position is (or should be) different today.
• The editor characterizes the “see XXX 2004” as a “paying of rent, a granting of rights to certain terms or ideas, as well as proof that the author has done some homework” (441).
• Overall, a neat meditation on what the author would like to see in the way of disciplinary conventions in CCC in the mid 1990s.