Labored

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Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition, edited by Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael Pemberton, offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the 1989 Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing and its relation to the changing nature of work in composition. Stemming from an investigative project to strengthen the Statement with data culled from national reports on labor conditions, this collection draws on the expertise of scholars whose research agendas and lived experiences afford fresh insights and critical analyses on labor issues in composition and writing program administration.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602358942
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Writing Program Administration
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven
The Writing Program Administration series provides a venue for scholarly monographs and projects that are research- or theory-based and that provide insights into important issues in the field. We encourage submissions that examine the work of writing program administration, broadly defined (e.g., not just administration of first-year composition programs). Possible topics include but are not limited to 1) historical studies of writing program administration or administrators (archival work is particularly encouraged); 2) studies evaluating the relevance of theories developed in other fields (e.g., management, sustainability, organizational theory); 3) studies of particular personnel issues (e.g., unionization, use of adjunct faculty); 4) research on developing and articulating curricula; 5) studies of assessment and accountability issues for WPAs; and 6) examinations of the politics of writing program administration work at the community college.
Books in the Series
The Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing: Scholarship and Applications e dited by Nicholas N. Behm, Sherry Rankins-Robertson, and Duane Roen (2017)
Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition edited by Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton (2017)
A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators edited by Joseph Janangelo (2017)
A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators edited by Rita Malenczyk, 2nd ed. (2016). First ed., 2013.
Ecologies of Writing Programs: Program Profiles in Context edited by Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, & Christian Weisser (2015)
Writing Program Administration and the Community College by Heather Ostman (2013)
The WPA Outcomes Statement—A Decade Later , edited by Nicholas N. Behm, Gregory R. Glau, Deborah H. Holdstein, Duane Roen, & Edward M. White (2012). Winner of the CWPA Best Book Award
Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges by Jill M. Gladstein and Dara Rossman Regaignon (2012)
GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the 21st Century by Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton, Tarez Samra Graban, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinandt Stolley (2012). Winner of the CWPA Best Book Award
Labored
The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition
Edited by Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein,
and Michael A. Pemberton
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
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Writing Program Administration
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Labor Practices, the Statement , and the Future of Work in Composition
Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton
Section 1: The Statement in Context
1 Reflections of an Anonymous Graduate Student on the Wyoming Conference Resolution
Susan Wyche
2 I Stand Here Ironing
Chris M. Anson
3 My War on the Statement
Valerie Balester
4 Elegy for a Statement
Jeanne Gunner
Section 2: The Statement and Present-Day Labor Conditions
5 One of Many: The Statement in the Context of Other Position Statements on Academic Labor
James C. McDonald
6 The jWPA: Caught Between the Promises of Portland and Laramie
Timothy R. Dougherty
7 The Missing Piece: Where Is the Labor-Related Research at the Research Network Forum?
Risa P. Gorelick
8 A State of Permanent Contingency: Writing Programs, Hiring Practices, and a Persistent Breach of Ethics
Casie J. Fedukovich, Susan Miller-Cochran, Brent Simoneaux, and Robin Snead
9 Contingency, Access, and the Material Conditions of Teaching and Learning in the Statement
Holly Hassel and Joanne Baird Giordano
Section 3: Rescripting the Statement
10 Rethinking the “Legitimate” Reasons for Hiring Adjunct Faculty: A Recension Statement of Its Own
Evelyn Beck
11 Recognizing Realities
Barry Maid and Barbara D’Angelo
12 A Focus on Reading as an Essential Component of the Next Statement
Alice S. Horning
13 Going Digital: Ideas for Updating CCCC’s Statement for a Digital World
James P. Purdy
14 Out of Print: Revising the Statement for More Inclusive Storytelling
Joseph Janangelo
15 Strengthening the Statement: Data on Working Conditions in College Composition
Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton
16 Afterword
Joseph Harris
Appendix: Data Enhanced Version of the Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing (1989)
Contributors
About the Editors
Index to the Print Edition


Acknowledgments
W e are grateful to the contributors of this book for sharing their wisdom and for providing valuable insights aimed at improving the labor practices and working conditions for future generations of writing teachers. David Blakesley was kind enough to support this project, and we appreciate his belief in it and enthusiasm for it. We thank everyone at Parlor Press, especially Terra Bradley, for their stellar editorial assistance and proofreading, and we thank our students and colleagues, who continue to inspire our work and demonstrate what it means to be a writing studies professional.
Randall thanks his co-editors Dayna and Michael for their friendship and their patience; his family and friends for their unwavering support; his Lord for His mercy and blessing; and his wife, Christine, and his children—Connor, Aislinn, Rowen, and Flynn—for reminding him why he writes and why he lives.
Dayna thanks her collaborators for their ongoing fortitude and encouragement with this project; Valenia Boteva for her early work running DAS reports; the CCCC committee that funded the initial project; and the many adjuncts, part-timers, and contingent faculty whose humanity is the concern of this endeavor.
Michael thanks, first of all, Randall and Dayna for bringing him in to help with this project, which has been as exciting in its development as the topic has been timely and important; his colleagues and friends in the Department of Writing and Linguistics for their collegiality, good spirits, and support; and his family—J. Marie, Elizabeth, and Kara—for their enduring love, even as he gets older and greyer every year.


Introduction: Labor Practices, the Statement , and the Future of Work in Composition
Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton
T he Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing (hereafter the Statement ), published in 1989 as a result of the Wyoming Conference, has long stood as the core document addressing staffing conditions in Rhetoric and Composition. The original Statement was an attempt by the field’s foremost professional organization, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), to argue for equitable treatment of composition professionals working in higher education. It has long been considered the “go to” document for Writing Program Administrators (WPAs), department chairs, other administrators, and faculty of all ranks as they attempt to create just employment conditions for an increasingly diverse labor pool in a rapidly changing workplace.
At the time the Statement was created, it reflected current working conditions for writing teachers in the academy and departments of English in particular. Ben W. McClelland noted in his 1981 WPA: Writing Program Administration article, “Part-Time Faculty in English Composition: A WPA Survey,” that a high percentage of the composition workforce consisted of underpaid, non-benefited adjuncts, and the Introduction to the 1989 Statement identified this sad reality as one of its primary motivating causes:
More than half the English faculty in two-year colleges, and nearly one-third of the English faculty at four-year colleges and universities, work on part-time and/or temporary appointments. Almost universally, they are teachers of writing, a fact which many consider the worst scandal in higher education today. These teachers work without job security, often without benefits, and for wages far below what their full-time colleagues are paid per course. Increasingly, many are forced to accept an itinerant existence, racing from class to car to drive to another institution to teach. (330)
By focusing on the working conditions necessary for quality writing instruction, the Statement challenged this oppressive model and worked to alleviate the inequities t