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 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
