Ecologies of Writing Programs

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Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context features profiles of exemplary and innovative writing programs across varied institutions. Situated within an ecological framework, the book explores the dynamic inter-relationships as well as the complex rhetorical and material conditions that writing programs inhabit—conditions and relationships that are constantly in flux as writing program administrators negotiate constraint and innovation.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602355149
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 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
Ecologies of Writing Programs: Program Profiles in Context edited by Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, & Christian Weisser (2015)
A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators edited by Rita Malenczyk (2013)
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)
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


Ecologies of Writing Programs
Program Profiles in Context
Edited by Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, and Christian Weisser
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
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Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, USA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ecologies of writing programs : program profiles in context / Edited by Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, and Christian Weisser.
pages cm -- (Writing Programs Administration.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60235-511-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-512-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher) 2. Environmental literature--Authorship--Study and teaching (Higher) 3. Writing centers--Administration. 4. Natural history--Authorship--Study and teaching (Higher) 5. Ecology--Authorship--Study and teaching (Higher) 6. Interdisciplinary approach in education. 7. Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher) 8. Nature study. I. Reiff, Mary Jo., editor. II. Bawarshi, Anis S., editor. III. Ballif, Michelle, 1964- editor. IV. Weisser, Christian R., 1970- editor.
PE1479.N28E36 2015
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Writing Program Administration
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven
Cover design by Christian Weisser.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Writing Program Ecologies: An Introduction
Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, and Christian Weisser
Part I. The Contested Ecologies of FYC Programs: Negotiating between Stability and Change
1 The Kairotic Moment: Pragmatic Revision of Basic Writing Instruction at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Sara Webb-Sunderhaus and Stevens Amidon
2 Standardizing English 101 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Reflections on the Promise of Improved GTA Preparation and More Effective Writing Instruction
Ronda Leathers Dively
3 Taking the High Road: Teaching for Transfer in an FYC Program
Jenn Fishman and Mary Jo Reiff
4 Intractable Writing Program Problems, Kairos, and Writing-about-Writing: A Profile of the University of Central Florida’s First-Year Composition Program
Elizabeth Wardle
Part II. Remapping Interdisciplinary Ecologies: WAC and WID Programs
5 The Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia
Michelle Ballif
6 Back to the Future: First-Year Writing in the Binghamton University Writing Initiative, State University of New York
Kelly Kinney and Kristi Murray Costello
7 Imagining a Writing and Rhetoric Program Based on Principles of Knowledge “Transfer”: Dartmouth’s Institute for Writing and Rhetoric
Stephanie Boone, Sara Biggs Chaney, Josh Compton, Christiane Donahue, and Karen Gocsik
Part III. Claiming Disciplinary Locations: The Undergraduate Major in Rhetoric and Composition
8 Diverse Lessons: Developing an Undergraduate Program in Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture at Texas A&M
Stephanie L. Kerschbaum and M. Jimmie Killingsworth
9 Reflections on the Major in Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University
Lori Ostergaard, Greg A. Giberson, and Jim Nugent
10 The Case for a Major in Writing Studies: The University of Minnesota Duluth
David Beard
Part IV. Interconnected Sites of Agency: Situating Assessment within Institutional Ecologies
11 Self-Assessment as Programmatic Center: The First Year Writing Program and Its Assessment at California State University, Fresno
Asao B. Inoue
12 Utilizing Strategic Assessment to Support FYC Curricular Revision at Murray State University
Paul Walker and Elizabeth Myers
Part V. Third Spaces: Creating Liminal Ecologies
13 A Collaborative Approach to Information Literacy: First-year Composition, Writing Center, and Library Partnerships at West Virginia University
Laura Brady, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran,
Jo Ann Dadisman, and Kelly Diamond
14 The Peer-Interactive Writing Center at the University of New Mexico
Daniel Sanford
15 Writing the Transition to College: A Summer College Writing Experience at Elon University
Jessie L. Moore, Kimberly B. Pyne, and Paula Patch
Index for Print Edition
About the Editors


Acknowledgments
Anyone who has administered a writing program knows about the complex, multidimensional, interconnected challenges involved in coordinating such programs. The challenges are intensified when working to cultivate and sustain a culture of innovation, often leaving very little space and time to reflect on, write about, and make that work available for the intellectual archive of composition studies. So most of all we want to thank the contributors whose profiled programs have made this book possible: Stevens Amidon, Michelle Ballif, David Beard, Sara Biggs Chaney, Stephanie Boone, Laura Brady, Josh Compton, Kristi Murray Costello, Jo Ann Dadisman, Kelly Diamond, Ronda Leathers Dively, Christiane Donahue, Jenn Fishman, Greg A. Giberson, Karen Gocsik, Asao B. Inoue, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Kelly Kinney, Jessie L. Moore, Elizabeth Myers, Jim Nugent, Lori Ostergaard, Paula Patch, Kimberly B. Pyne, Mary Jo Reiff, Daniel Sanford, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran, Paul Walker, Elizabeth Wardle, and Sara Webb-Sunderhaus.
A special thank you to David Blakesley for his encouragement and support of this project. From the book’s earliest conceptualization to publication, David’s big picture ability to synthesize reviewer feedback in light of the book’s goals while also attending to editorial details has guided this project. As well, we would like to thank Susan McLeod and Margot Soven, the Writing Program Administration series editors at Parlor Press, for encouraging us to sustain connections across chapters that helped to strengthen the book’s coherence. For her outstanding work in preparing the concordance for the book’s index, no easy task, we thank Jennifer Lin LeMesurier.
Completing a project of this scale does not happen without sacrifice of time and energy. For their understanding and support, we thank our families and friends.
A portion of the proceeds of this book will go to Surfrider Foundation USA, a grassroots nonprofit environmental organization that works to protect the world’s oceans, beaches, rivers, and waterways. Check them out at www.surfrider.org.


Writing Program Ecologies: An Introduction
Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, and Christian Weisser
M ore than three decades ago, Marilyn Cooper proposed an ecological model of writing, “whose fundamental tenet is that writing is an activity through which a person is continuously engaged with a variety of socially constituted systems” (367). That is, Cooper suggested that writers are not solitary agents but are instead enmeshed in complex, circulative relationships with other writers, texts, contexts, ideas, and exigencies. Cooper’s “The Ecology of Writing” speculated that “all the characteristics of