Wpa: Writing Program Administration 39.2 (Spring 2016) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160235832X ISBN 13: 9781602358324

Publisher: Parlor Press, 2016

Synopsis

WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within programmatic contexts advocacy and institutional critique and change; writing programs and their extra-institutional relationships with writing's publics; technology and the delivery of writing instruction within programmatic contexts; wpa and writing program histories and contexts; WAC / ECAC / WID and their intersections with writing programs; the theory and philosophy of writing program administration issues of professional advancement and wpa work; and projects that enhance wpa work with diverse stakeholders. CONTENTS OF WPA 39.2 (Spring 2016): Letter from the Editors SYMPOSIUM: CHALLENGING WHITENESS AND/IN WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND WRITING PROGRAMS: "Rhonda Left Early to Go to Black Lives Matter" Programmatic Support for Graduate Writers of Color by Jasmine Kar Tang and Noro Andriamanalina A Story-less Generation: Emergent WPAs of Color and the Loss of Identity through Absent Narratives by Sherri Craig Troubling the Boundaries Revisited: Moving Towards Change as Things Stay the Same by Collin Lamont Craig and Staci M. Perryman-Clark Notes on Race in Transnational Writing Program Administration by Amy A. Zenger Sustaining Balance: Writing Program Administration and the Mentorship of Minority College Students by Regina McManigell Grijalva WPA and the New Civil Rights Movement by Genevieve García de Müeller The Yardstick of Whiteness in Composition Textbooks by Cedric D. Burrows The Role of Composition Programs in De-Normalizing Whiteness in the University: Programmatic Approaches to Anti-Racist Pedagogies by James Chase Sanchez and Tyler S. Branson On Keeping Score: Instructors' vs. Students' Rubric Ratings of 46,689 Essays by Joseph M. Moxley and David Eubanks Taming Big Data through Agile Approaches to Instructor Training and Assessment: Managing Ongoing Professional Development in Large First-Year Writing Programs by Susan M. Lang An Institutional Ethnography of Information Literacy Instruction: Key Terms, Local/Material Contexts, and Instructional Practice by Michelle LaFrance TRAVELOGUE: Aspen and Honeysuckle: How Faculty Development for Teaching Writing Grows (Interview with Jessie Moore and Chris Anson) by Shirley K Rose REVIEWS: A New Perspective on Language-Level Writing Instruction by Anne Ruggles Gere Writing Majors: Signs of Things to Come by T J Geiger II Online Writing Instruction Principles and Practices: Now Is the Future by Elizabeth A. Monske A Bird's Eye View of WAC in Practice: WAC Writing Assignments at 100 Colleges and Universities by Emily Isaacs

Edition details

• Publisher: Parlor Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160235832X
• ISBN 13: 9781602358324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Writing Program Administrators Council