The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide To Reflective Institutional Practice

by Brown, Stuart C.; Enos, Theresa Jarnagin; (Assistant Editor) Chaput, Catherine; Merrill, Yvonne

• ISBN13: 9780805838268
• ISBN10: 0805838260
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

The role of the writing program administrator is one of diverse activities and challenges, and preparation for the position has traditionally come through performing the job itself. As a result, uninitiated WPAs often find themselves struggling to manage the various requirements and demands of the position, and even experienced WPAs often encounter situations on which they need advice. The Writing Program Administrator's Resource has been developed to address the needs of all WPAs, regardless of background or experience. It provides practical, applicable tools to effectively address the differing and sometimes competing roles in which WPAs find themselves. Readers will find an invaluable collection of articles in this volume, addressing fundamental practices and issues encountered by WPAs in their workplace settings and focusing on the hows and whys of writing program administration. With formal preparation and training only now beginning to catch up to the very real needs of the WPA, this volume offers guidance and support from authoritative and experienced sources--educators who have established the definitions and standards of the position; who have run into obstacles and surmounted them; and who have not just survived but thrived in their roles as WPAs. Editors Stuart C. Brown and Theresa Enos contribute their own experience and bring together the voices of their colleagues to delineate the intellectual scope and practices of writing program administration as an emerging discipline. Established and esteemed leaders in the field offer insights, advice, and plans of action for the myriad scenarios encountered in the position, encouraging WPAs and helping them to realize that they often know more than they think they do. This resource is required reading for the new WPA, and an essential reference for all who serve in the WPA role. As a guidebook for WPAs, it is destined to become a fixture on the desk of every educator involved with or interested in administrating writing programs, writing centers, and writing-across-the-curriculum efforts.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Lynn Z. Bloom
Introduction	xvii
Part I: Instituting Change
Turtles All the Way Down: Educating Academic Leaders	3	(38)
Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Politics and the WPA: Traveling Through and Past Realms of Expertise	41	(18)
Douglas D. Hesse
Reflexive Professional Development: Getting Disciplined in Writing Program Administration	59	(12)
Theresa Enos
Certifying the Knowledge of WPAs	71	(18)
Gail Stygall
Writing Program Administration Internships	89	(12)
Daphne Desser
Darin Payne
Teaching a Graduate Course in Writing Program Administration	101	(12)
Edward M. White
Moving Up the Administrative Ladder	113	(12)
Susan H. McLeod
Writing Program Administration as Preparation for an Administrative Career	125	(12)
David E. Schwalm
Legal Considerations for Writing Program Administrators	137	(18)
Veronica Pantoja
Nancy Tribbensee
Duane Roen
Applying Ethics: A Decision-Making Heuristic for Writing Program Administrators	155	(10)
Stuart C. Brown
The WPA and the Politics of LitComp	165	(16)
John Schilb
Part-Time/Adjunct Issues: Working Toward Change	181	(22)
Eileen E. Schell
Making Learning Visible: A Rhetorical Stance on General Education	203	(16)
Yvonne Merrill
Thomus P. Miller
How the Professional Lives of WPAs Would Change if FYC Were Elective	219	(14)
Sharon Crowley
Part II: Instituting Practice
Figuring It Out: Writing Programs in the Context of University Budgets	233	(20)
Chris M. Anson
Collaborative Administration	253	(10)
Jeanne Gunner
Placement Issues	263	(12)
Daniel J. Royer
Roger Gilles
The WPA as Researcher and Archivist	275	(16)
Shirley K. Rose
Irwin Weiser
Hard Work and Hard Data: Using Statistics to Help Your Program	291	(12)
Gregory R. Glau
Reflection, Assessment, and Articulation: A Rhetoric of Writing Program Administration	303	(12)
Christopher Burnham
Expanding the Community: A Comprehensive Look at Outreach and Articulation	315	(16)
Anne-Marie Hall
Contrapower Harassment in Program Administration: Establishing Teacher Authority	331	(10)
Julia K. Ferganchick
Writing Program Administration and Instructional Computing	341	(36)
Ken S. McAllister
Cynthia L. Selfe
Writing Centers, Writing Programs, and WPAs: Roles by Any Other Names?	377	(16)
Carol Peterson Haviland
Denise Stephenson
The GTA Experience: Grounding, Practicing, Evaluating and Reflecting	393	(18)
Meg Morgan
GAT Training in Collaborative Teaching at the University of Arizona	411	(18)
Amanda Brobbel
Matt Hinojosa
Carol Nowotny-Young
Susan Penfield
D. R. Ransdell
Michael Robinson
Denise Scagliotta
Erec Toso
Tilly Warnock
Jocelyn D. White
This Site Under Construction: Negotiating Space for WPA Work in the Community College	429	(10)
Victoria Holmsten
Writing Across the Curriculum	439	(14)
Martha A. Townsend
More Than a Room of Our Own: Building an Independent Department of Writing	453	(14)
Barry M. Maid
Issues in Writing Program Administration: A Select Annotated Bibliography	467	(24)
Rebecca Jackson
Patricia Wojahn
Appendix A: Portland Resolution	491	(8)
Appendix B: Evaluating the Intellectual Work of Writing Administration	499	(20)
Appendix C: WPA Outcomes Statement for First Year Composition	519	(4)
Author Index	523	(8)
Subject Index	531