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 43.1 (Fall 2019): LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: Please Take Care by Lori Ostergaard, Jacob Babb, and Jim Nugent | PLENARY PANEL Sustainable Becomings: Women’s Career Trajectories in Writing Program Administration by Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Sheila Carter-Tod, Jessie L. Moore, Patti Poblete, Casey Reid, and Sarah Elizabeth Snyder | PLENARY Intersections of Privilege and Access: Writing Programs, Disciplinary Knowledge, and the Shape of a Field by Joanne Baird Giordano and Holly Hassel | ESSAYS Advocacy, Independence, and the Painful Kairotic Moment for Rhetoric and Composition by Kimberly Gunter | Responding to Bullying in the WPA Workplace by Cristyn L. Elder and Bethany Davila | The F-Word: Failure in WPA Work by Heather Bastian | Student Expectation Auditing and Mapping: A Method for Eliciting Student Input in Writing Program Assessment by Mathew Gomes and Wenjuan Ma | Favorable Outcomes: How Outcomes Can Make Space for Multimodal Composition Curricula by Logan Bearden | BOOK REVIEWS Making Class Visible by Darin L. Jensen | Traveling to New and Familiar Places: A Review of WPAs in Transition by Kristi Murray Costello |Rethinking and Revising: New Approaches for New Challenges by Rebecca Petitti
