Publisher's Synopsis
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 34.2: From the Editors "Addressing Instructor Ambivalence about Peer Review and Self-Assessment" by Pamela Bedore and Brian O'Sullivan "Troubling the Boundaries: (De)Constructing WPA Identities at the Intersections of Race and Gender" by Collin Lamont Craig and Staci Maree Perryman-Clark "Lessons about Writing to Learn from a University-High School Partnership" by Bradley Peters "Cohorts, Grading, and Ethos: Listening to TAs Enhances Teacher Preparation" Amy Rupiper Taggart and Margaret Lowry "WPAs Respond to "A Symposium on Fostering Teacher Quality" "Response to "A Symposium on Fostering Teacher Quality" by Sue Doe "Fostering Teacher Quality through Cultures of Professionalism" by Claire Coleman Lamonica "Response to "A Symposium on Fostering Teacher Quality" by Mike Palmquist "Crabgrass and Gumbo: Interviews with 2011 WPA Conference Local Hosts about the Place of Writing Programs at their Home Institutions" by Shirley K Rose, Irwin Peckham, and James C. McDonald REVIEW ESSAYS: "What Is Real College Writing? Let the Disagreement Never End" by Peter Elbow "Reinventing Writing Assessment: How the Conversation Is Shifting" by William Condon Contributors
