The Outcomes Book

by Harrington, Susanmarie

• ISBN13: 9780874216042
• ISBN10: 0874216044
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-30
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

The WPA Outcomes Statement is important because it represents a working consensus among composition scholars about what college students should learn and do in a composition program. But as a single-page document, the statement cannot convey the kind of reflective process that a writing program must undertake to address the learning outcomes described. The Outcomes Book relates the fuller process by exploring the matrix of concerns that surrounded the developing Statement itself, and by presenting the experience of many who have since employed it in their own settings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: Celebrating and Complicating the Outcomes Statement	xv
Susanmarie Harrington
PART ONE: CONTEXTUALIZING THE OUTCOMES STATEMENT
1 The Origins of the Outcomes Statement	3	(5)
Edward M. White
2 The Outcomes Project: The Insiders' History	8	(10)
Keith Rhodes, Irvin Peckham, Linda S. Bergmann, and William Condon
3 Standards, Outcomes and All That Jazz	18	(6)
Kathleen Blake Yancey
4 Outcomes are not Mandates for Standardization	24	(8)
Mark Wiley
5 Expanding Our Understanding of Composing Outcomes	32	(7)
Cynthia L. Selfe and Patricia Freitag Ericsson
PART TWO: THE OUTCOMES STATEMENT AND FIRST-YEAR WRITING
6 The WPA Outcomes Statement Goes to High School	39	(12)
Stephen Wilhoit
7 The Outcomes Statement at a Community College: Verification, Accreditation, and Articulation	51	(9)
J.L. McClure
8 Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A View from the Field	60	(12)
Linda Adler-Kassner and Heidi Estrem
9 More Than the Latest PC Buzzword for Modes: What Genre Theory Means to Composition	72	(13)
Barbara Little Liu
10 Processes and Outcomes in Arizona's Higher Education System	85	(12)
Duane Roen and Gregory R. Glau
11 Knowledge of Conventions and the Logic of Error	97	(7)
Donald Wolff
12 Celebrating through Interrogation: Considering the Outcomes Statement through Theoretical Lenses	104	(17)
Patricia Freitag Ericsson
PART THREE: THE OUTCOMES STATEMENT BEYOND FIRST-YEAR WRITING
13 What the Outcomes Statement Could Mean for Writing across the Curriculum	121	(6)
Martha A. Townsend
14 First-Year Outcomes and Upper-Level Writing	127	(12)
Susanmarie Harrington
15 Using the Outcomes Statement for Technical Communication	139	(11)
Barry M. Maid
16 Using Writing Outcomes to Enhance Teaching and Learning: Alverno College's Experience	150	(12)
Robert O'Brien Hokanson
17 What the Outcomes Statement Is Not: A Reading of the Boyer Commission Report	162	(9)
Rita Malenczyk
PART FOUR: THEORIZING OUTCOMES
18 The Outcomes Statement as Theorizing Potential: Through a Looking Glass	171	(6)
Ruth Overman Fischer
19 A Friendly Challenge to Push the Outcomes Statement Further	177	(14)
Peter Elbow
20 Outcomes and the Developing Learner	191	(10)
Richard H. Haswell
21 Practice: The Road to the Outcomes over Time	201	(10)
Marilyn S. Sternglass
Afterword: Bowling Together: Developing, Distributing, and Using the WPA Outcomes Statement-and Making Cultural Change	211	(11)
Kathleen Blake Yancey
Notes	222	(4)
References	226	(8)
Contributors	234	(4)
Index	238