Description
WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within programmatic contexts advocacy and institutional critique and change; writing programs and their extra-institutional relationships with writing’s publics; technology and the delivery of writing instruction within programmatic contexts; wpa and writing program histories and contexts; WAC / ECAC / WID and their intersections with writing programs; the theory and philosophy of writing program administration issues of professional advancement and wpa work; and projects that enhance wpa work with diverse stakeholders. CONTENTS OF WPA 40.1 (Fall 2016): Letter from the Editors | ARTICLES: ‘Flexible’ Learning, Disciplinarity, and First-Year Writing: Critically Engaging Competency-Based Education by Kristen Seas Trader, Jennifer Heinert, Cassandra Phillips, and Holly Hassel | Redesigning Writing Outcomes by Carrie S. Leverenz | WPAs Reading SETs: Toward an Ethical and Effective Use of Teaching Evaluations by Courtney Adams Wooten, Brian Ray, and Jacob Babb | (Re)Identifying the gWPA Experience by Talinn Phillips, Paul Shovlin, and Megan L. Titus | Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Online: Theoretical and Pedagogical Practices by Tiffany Bourelle | PLENARY ADDRESSES: Locations of Administration; or, WPAs in Space by Rita Malenczyk | Racism in Writing Programs and the CWPA by Asao B. Inoue | Creating a Culture of Access in Writing Program Administration by Melanie Yergeau | REVIEWS: Thinking Ecologically and Ethically about Assessment by Katrina L. Miller | Illuminating Bodies: Bringing Tutor-Researchers to the Forefront by Patti Poblete | Enacting Transcultural Citizenship by Writing Across Communities by Matthew Tougas
