Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators 2e, A

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A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators (2nd Edition) presents the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration. The collection provides aspiring, new, and seasoned WPAs with the theoretical lenses, terminologies, historical contexts, and research they need to understand the nature, history, and complexities of their intellectual and administrative work.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602358492
• Langue: English
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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
Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition edited by Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton (2016)
A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators edited by Joseph Janangelo (2016)
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


A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators
Second Edition
Edited by Rita Malenczyk
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Names: Malenczyk, Rita, 1959- editor.
Title: A rhetoric for writing program administrators / edited by Rita
Malenczyk.
Description: Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2016] | Series:
Writing Problem Administration | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016032001 (print) | LCCN 2016040824 (ebook) | ISBN
9781602358461 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781602358478 (hardcover : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781602358485 (pdf) | ISBN 9781602358492 (epub) | ISBN
9781602358508 ( ibook) | ISBN 9781602358515 (Kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Writing centers--Administration. | English
language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. | Report
writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. | Interdisciplinary
approach in education. | Academic writing--Study and teaching.
Classification: LCC PE1405.U6 R493 2016 (print) | LCC PE1405.U6 (ebook) | DDC
808/.042071173--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016032001
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Cover design by David Blakesley
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Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction, with Some Rhetorical Terms
Rita Malenczyk
Part One: Initial Questions
1 What Are Students?
Kelly Ritter
2 What Is Placement?
Dan Royer and Roger Gilles
3 What Is Basic Writing?
Hannah Ashley
4 What Is First-Year Composition?
Doug Downs
5 What Are Threshold Concepts (and Why Are They Useful for Writing Programs)?
Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle
6 What Is ESL?
Gail Shuck
7 What Is Technology?
Jeffrey M. Gerding and Richard Johnson-Sheehan
Part 2: Complicating Questions
8 What Are Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines?
Martha A. Townsend
9 What Is General Education?
Lauren Fitzgerald
10 What Is Institutional Mission?
Elizabeth Vander Lei and Melody Pugh
11 What Is Pre-College Credit?
Kristine Hansen
12 What Is Transfer Articulation?
David E. Schwalm
13 What Is Transfer?
Elizabeth Wardle
14 What Is Assessment?
Susanmarie Harrington
15 What Is Retention?
Heidi Estrem, Pegeen Reichert Powell, and Dawn Shepherd
Part 3: Personal Questions
16 What Is a Writing Instructor?
Eileen E. Schell
17 What Is Faculty Development?
Carol Rutz and Stephen Wilhoit
18 What Is TA Education?
E. Shelley Reid
19 What Is A Union?
Seth Kahn
20 What Is the Writing Center?
Neal Lerner
Part Four: Helpful Questions
21 What Is a Writing Program History?
Shirley K Rose
22 What Are The Administration and The Budget? (And Why Are We Talking About Them Together?)
Irwin Weiser
23 What Is NSSE?
Charles Paine, Robert M. Gonyea, Chris M. Anson, and Paul V. Anderson
24 What Is the National Writing Project?
William P. Banks
25 What Is Community Literacy?
Eli Goldblatt
Part Five: Vexed Questions
26 What Is Class Size?
Gregory R. Glau
27 What Are Institutional Politics?
Tom Fox and Rita Malenczyk
28 What Is Academic Freedom?
Mary R. Boland
29 What Are Educational Standards?
Peggy O’Neill
30 What Is Policy?
Chris W. Gallagher
Part Six: Eternal Questions
31 What Is an Independent Writing Department/Program?
Barry Maid
32 What Is an English Department?
Melissa Ianetta
33 What Is The Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administration?
Joseph Janangelo
34 What Is WPA Research?
Christiane Donahue
35 What Is Principle?
Linda Adler-Kassner
36 What Is a Personal Life?
Douglas Hesse
Contributors
Index
About the Editor


Preface to the Second Edition
S ome things don’t change much in the world of writing program administration: certain aspects of the WPA’s job, such as placement, assessment, and (dare I say it) institutional politics will always be with us. Nevertheless, WPA work responds to larger institutional concerns and trends in higher education as well as new disciplinary knowledge. In the three years since the first edition of this book appeared, student retention has emerged as a significant concern of institutions around the US, and threshold concepts of rhetoric and composition—distilled in Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle’s Naming What We Know (Utah State UP, 2015)—have come to play a significant role in the ongoing disciplinary conversation about what should be taught in first-year composition and how to work with faculty across the curriculum. I’ve asked experts on those topics to write new chapters for this edition. You will also find additional chapters on topics readers felt were missing from the first edition (e.g., technology). A chapter about independent writing programs, by Barry Maid, now dialogues with Melissa Ianetta’s chapter about English departments. Several other chapters (see, for instance, Lauren Fitzgerald’s chapter on general education; Gail Shuck’s on “ESL;” Christiane Donahue’s on WPA research) have also undergone fairly significant updating and revision, while others have incorporated small changes here and there. Still others remain exactly the same.
Thanks to all the readers who gave such a warm reception to the first edition. Here’s hoping you like this one too.
—Rita Malenczyk, July, 2016


A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators


Introduction, with Some Rhetorical Terms
Rita Malenczyk
Exigence
F rom Holly M. Wells of Texas Lutheran, writing on WPA-L, a listserv for writing program administrators:
I’m a brand-new writing program director at a SLAC [small liberal arts college] with a very small writing program (thank God). Was wondering if some folks may have some info stored somewhere that would be helpful to new faculty who have no idea what they are doing—a “WPA for Dummies,” if you will. A cursory search of the archives netted me a whole lot of stuff, but nothing that seemed relevant at first glance. Any advice you care to send my way off-list is gratefully accepted. . . . Nothing in my ten years of adjuncting/TFing prepared me for this!
Writing program administration has grown as a discipline within rhetoric and composition over the last three decades, with a variety of books and courses as well as a refereed journal, WPA