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Writing Program Administration

Susan H. McLeod

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Edited by Charles Bazerman
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Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing Program Administration

Susan H. McLeod

© 2007 by Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse
172 pages, with glossary, annotated bibliography, and index.

Information and Pricing
978-1-60235-007-6 (paper, $30.00; £16.00); 978-1-60235-008-3 (cloth, $60.00; £32.00); 978-1-60235-009-0 ( Adobe eBook, $12.00; £7.00). 172 pages, with glossary, annotated bibliography, and index.

Available Formats: Paperback | Cloth with Dust Jacket | Adobe eBook on CD

Description
Like its predecessors in Charles Bazerman’s series on Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition, this reference guide provides a comprehensive review of the literature on all the issues, responsibilities, and opportunities that writing program administrators need to understand, manage, and enact, including budgets, personnel, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and supervision, and more. Writing Program Administration also provides the first comprehensive history of writing program administration in U.S. higher education. Writing Program Administration includes a helpful glossary of terms and an annotated bibliography for further reading. Written by a WPA who has also served in other administrative positions (department chair and associate dean), the book takes a broad perspective on the work of the WPA. It is an indispensable guide for experienced and new writing program administrators alike. Students new to the study of writing program administration will find it to be their essential guide to its history and to their own professionalization.

About the Author
Susan H. McLeod is Professor of Writing and Director of the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published widely on writing across the curriculum and composition. Her most recent book is Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum (Parlor Press, 2006), which she edited with Margot Soven.

Contents
Preface, vii
Acknowledgments, ix
1 Introduction and Overview, 3

Issues in Writing Program Administration, 4
Organization and Scope of the Text, 5

2 Distinctions and Definitions, 7

The WPA in the Institution, 7
The WPA as Unappreciated Wife, 11
The WPA as Scholar, 14
The WPA as Politician, Rhetor,
Change Agent, Manager, 17
The WPA as Leader  20

3 A History of Writing Program Administration, 23

The Beginnings, 23
English Departments and Composition, 24
The History of Rhetoric and the
New Emphasis on English, 27
Development of a Composition Underclass, 31
The Pedagogy and Curricula of
Early Composition Courses, 32
The Tenacity of Current-Traditional Rhetoric, 38
The Pre-Professional Period: Writing Program
Administration up to World War II, 45
The Period of Professionalization: Post World War II, 58
The First Professional Organization
for WPAs: CCCC, 63
The Birth of the Council of
Writing Program Administrators, 67
The Development of WPA: The Journal of Writing Program Administration, 76
Writing Program Administration in the
Twenty-First Century, 78

4 Current Issues and Practical Guidelines, 80

Curriculum, 81
First-Year Composition, 81
Basic Writing, 85
ESL and Generation 1.5 Students, 87
Articulation, 88
Beyond First-Year Composition, 88
Pedagogy, 89
Assessment and Accountability, 92
Overviews, 92
Placement, 94
Proficiency, 95
Program Assessment, 96
Staffing, Staff Development, and Evaluation, 98
Administrative and Professional Issues, 100

5 Glossary, 105
6 Practical Resources for Writing Program Administrators:

A Selected Bibliography, 114
Anne Whitney

General Resource Guides/Overviews, 114
Curriculum and Pedagogy, 117
Assessment and Accountability, 120
Staffing and Staff Development, 124
Administrative and Professional Issues, 128

Notes, 132
Works Cited, 136
Index, 153

 

 

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