Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs (Crosscurrents (Boynton/Cook Pub)). This item is unavailable.Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs (Crosscurrents (Boynton/Cook Pub))

With this collection of essays, the concept of writing program administration as a significant expression of scholarship comes of age. Featuring the insights of many prominent composition scholars and writing program administrators, this book has a dual message. First is that writing programs represent a different presence in the academy, one that can pose a critique to accepted practices and elicit institutional change. Second is that WPAs can creatively use this different and liminal status to help writing programs resituate themselves at the center, rather than at the margins, of their institutions.

Divided into three sections, the book's first features essays on defining the differences between writing programs and other, more familiar academic units; the ethical dimension of writing program administration; technology's place in writing programs; and the critical role of two-year institutions. In the second section, four veteran WPAs suggest ways to build liaisons with other members of the campus community. The book's final section reflects on how writing program administrators can imagine their work both to make it possible to accomplish and to make its differences understandable and appreciated by those who judge WPAs.

Resituating Writing is a resource that will help composition specialists locate their scholarship and teaching within broad political and intellectual frameworks. It provides persuasive evidence of the unique scope of the WPA's work for other administrators whose decisions affect writing programs. And it is particularly relevant for graduate students as they prepare for their own future responsibilities as teachers and administrators.

JOSEPH JANANGELO is assistant professor of English at Loyola University-Chicago. He trains graduate students to teach composition and serves as a mentor for writing center tutors.KRISTINE HANSEN is associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, where she has served as Coordinator of Composition. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.