Writing Program Administrator's Resource

Stuart C. Brown, Theresa Jarnagi Enos

• Contents: L.Z. Bloom, Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Instituting Change.L.W. Phelps, Turtles All the Way Down: Educating Academic Leaders. D.D. Hesse, Politics and the WPA: Traveling Through and Past Realms of Experience. T. Enos, Reflexive Professional Development: Getting Disciplined in Writing Program Administration. G. Stygall, Certifying the Knowledge of the WPAs. D. Desser, D. Payne, Writing Program Administration Internships. E.M. White, Teaching a Graduate Course in Writing Program Administration. S.H. McLeod, Moving Up the Administrative Ladder. D.E. Schwalm, Writing Program Administration as Preparation for an Administrative Career. V. Pantoja, N. Tribbensee, D. Roen, Legal Considerations for Writing Program Administrators. S.C. Brown, Applying Ethics: A Decision-Making Heuristic for Writing Program Administrators. J. Schilb, The WPA and the Politics of LitComp. E.E. Schell, Part-Time/Adjunct Issues: Working Toward Change. Y. Merrill, T.P. Miller, Making Learning Visible: A Rhetorical Stance on General Education. S. Crowley, How the Professional Lives of WPAs Would Change if FYC Were Elective. Part II: Instituting Practice.C.M. Anson, Figuring It Out: Writing Programs in the Context of University Budgets. J. Gunner, Collaborative Administration. D.J. Royer, R. Gilles, Placement Issues. S.K. Rose, I. Weiser, The WPA as Researcher and Archivist. G.R. Glau, Hard Work and Hard Data: Using Statistics to Help Your Program. C. Burnham, Reflection, Assessment, and Articulation: A Rhetoric of Writing Program Administration. A-M. Hall, Expanding the Community: A Comprehensive Look at Outreach and Articulation. J.K. Ferganchick, Contrapower Harassment in Program Administration: Establishing Teacher Authority. K.S. McAllister, C.L. Selfe, Writing Program Administration and Instructional Computing. C.P. Haviland, D. Stephenson, Writing Centers, Writing Programs, and WPAs: Roles by Any Other Names? M. Morgan, The GTA Experience: Grounding, Practicing, Evaluating, and Reflecting. A. Brobbel, M. Hinojosa, C. Nowotny-Young, S. Penfield, D.R. Ransdell, M. Robinson, D. Scagliotta, E. Toso, T. Warnock, J.D. White, GAT Training in Collaborative Teaching at the University of Arizona. V. Holmsten, This Site Under Construction: Negotiating Space for WPA Work in the Community College. M.A. Townsend, Writing Across the Curriculum. B.M. Maid, More Than a Room of Our Own: Building an Independent Department of Writing. R. Jackson, P. Wojahn, Issues in Writing Program Administration: A Select Annotated Bibliography. Appendices: Portland Resolution. Evaluating the Intellectual Work of Writing Administration. WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition.

"...the book is exactly what its name suggests: a resource that WPAs will grab in cases of need or scholarly interest. This is also where it excels, so long as the reader does not expect to find ready-made solutions to vexing emergencies. Instead, readers will find a reliable general guide to the best of what WPAs have been thinking, discussing, and publishing in most of the critical areas of WPA experience, with consistently excellent bibliographies to guide further inquiry...I value this book highly, and in many ways its quality establishes the high expectations by which I have found reasons also to wish for more. I am glad that I read it, and I strongly recommend it for all of its intended audiences. I simply hope that many experienced WPAs will offer assistance in its use to those who might not know what they have in their hands--or why they ought to pick it up in the first place."