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 41.1 (Fall 2017): Editing WPA: Taking Wing by Lori Ostergaard, Jim Nugent, and Jacob Babb| ARTICLES: Time Enough?: Experimental Findings on Embedded Librarianship by Alexis Teagarden and Michael Carlozzi | A Case Study Exploring the Connections between Locally Defined Writing and Student Engagement: Toward a “Think Little” Model for Assessment and Accountability by Diane Kelly-Riley | Linguistic Diversity in Online Writing Classes by Bethany Davila, Tiffany Bourelle, Andrew Bourelle, and Anna V. Knutson | Paths to Productive Partnerships: Surveying High School Teachers about Professional Development Opportunities and “College-Level” Writing by Melanie Burdick and Jane Greer | Metaphors for Writing Transfer in the Writing Lives and Teaching Practices of Faculty in the Disciplines by Neil Baird and Bradley Dilger | REVIEWS: Critical Reading: Attention Needed! By Alice Horning | Queer Ways of Knowing by Jonathan Alexander
