English 680W Writing Program Administration

Bibliography of Print Sources

Instructor: Professor Shirley Rose

Purdue University

January 2002

Writing Program Administration—General

Hartzog, Carol. Composition and the Academy: A Study of Writing Program Administration. New York: Modern Language Association, 1986.

Bloom, Lynn A., Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White, Eds. Composition in the Twenty-first Century: Crisis and Change. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.

George, Diana, ed. Kitchen Gods, Plate Twirlers and Troubadours: Writing Program Administrators Tell Their Stories. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

Janangelo, Joseph and Kristine Hansen, Eds. Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1995.

Petraglia, Joseph, ed. Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1995.

Guidebooks/Sourcebooks

Hilgers, Thomas and Joy Marsella. Making Your Writing Program Work: A Guide to Good Practices. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992.

Myers-Breslin, Linda, ed. Administrative Problem-Solving for Writing Programs and Writing Centers: Scenarios in Effective Program Management. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999.

Ward, Irene and William J. Carpenter. Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators. New York: Longman, 2002.

Writing Program Administration—Historical

Corbett, Edward P.J. “A History of Writing Program Administration.” Learning from the Histories of Rhetoric: Essays in Honor of Winifred Bryan Horner. Ed. Theresa Enos. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993. 60-71.

Crowley, Sharon. Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P, 1998.

Hoover, Regina. “Taps for Freshman English?” CCC 15.2 (May 1974): 149-54.

Kitzhaber, Albert. Rhetoric in American Colleges, 1850-1900. Southern Methodist UP, 1982 (1953).

L’Eplattenier, Barbara. “Finding Ourselves in the Past: An Argument for the Need for Historical Work on WPAs.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

Shaw, Patrick. “Freshman English: To Compose or Decompose, That’s the Question.” CCC 15.2 (May 1974): 155-59.

Smith, Ron. “The Composition Requirement Today: A Report on a nationwide Survey of Four-Year College and Universities.” CCC 15.2 (May 1974): 138-48.

“The Status of Freshman English.” CCC 19.1 (Feb 1968): 81-85.

Tigar, Par. “ADE Survey of Freshman English.” ADE Bulletin 43 (Nov 1974): 13-19.

Politics/Economics of Writing Program Administration:

Bullock, Richard and John Trimbur. Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1991.

Hult, Christine. "Politics Redux: The Organization and Administration of Writing Programs." WPA 18 (Spring 1995): 44-52.

Miller, Susan. Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition. Carbondale and Edwardswille, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Schell, Eileen E. Gypsy Academics and Mother-Teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Instruction. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1998.

Subject Position of the Writing Program Administrator:

Cambridge, Barbara L. and Ben McClelland. “From Icon to Partner: Repositioning the Writing Program Administrator.” Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs. Ed. Joseph Janangelo and Kristine Hansen. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1995. 151-59

Gracie, William J., Jr. “Directing Freshman English: The Role of Administration in Freshman English Programs.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 5.3 (Spring 1982): 21-24.

Gunner, Jeanne. “Decentering the WPA.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 18 (1994): 8-15.

Gunner, Jeanne, Guest Editor. (Special Issue on Collaborative Writing Program Administration). WPA: Writing Program Administration 21.2/3 (Spring 1998).

Gunner, Jeanne. “Among the Composition People: The WPA as English Department Agent.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 18.1 (1998): 153-165.

Miller, Richard E. “From Intellectual Wasteland to Resource-Rich Colony: Capitalizing on the Role of Writing Instruction in Higher Education.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 24.3 (Spring 2001): 25-40.

Olson, Gary A. and Joseph M. Moxley. “Directing Freshman Composition: The Limits of Authority.” CCC 40 (1989): 51-59.

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. “Telling a Writing Program Its Own Story: A Tenth Anniversary Speech.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, forthcoming.

Sledd, James. "An Enterprise Founded on Exploitation." The Council Chronicle Sept 1995: 6

White Edward M. “Use It or Lose It: Power and the WPA.” Writing Program Administration 15.1-2 (1991): 3-12.

Feminist (Writing Program) Administration

Astin, Helen S. and Carole Leland. Women of Influence, Women of Vision: A Cross-Generational Study of Leaders and Social Change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991.

Barr-Ebest, Sally. “Gender Differences in Writing Program Administration.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 19.3 (Spring 1995): 53-73.

Dickson, Marcia. “Directing Without Power: Adventures in Constructing a Model of Feminist Writing Program Administration.” Writing Ourselves into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Eds. Sheryl Fontaine and Susan Hunter. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1993. 140-53.

Ferguson, Kathy. The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1984.

Glazer, Judith S. “Feminism and Professionalism in Teaching and Educational Administration.” Educational Administration Quarterly 27.3 (1991): 321-42.

Goodburn, Amy and Carrie Shively Leverencz. “Feminist Writing Program Administration: Resisting the Bureaucracy Within.” Feminism and Composition: In Other Words. Eds. Susan Jarratt and Lynn Worsham. New York: Modern Language Association, 1997. 276-90.

Grundy, Shirley. “Educational Leadership as Emancipatory Praxis.” Gender Matters in Educational Administration and Policy. Eds. Jill Blackmore and Jane Kenway. London: Falmer, 1993. 165-77

Holdstein, Deborah. “Gender, Feminism, and Institution-Wide Assessment Program.” In White, Lutz, and Kamusikiri, Assessment of Writing. New York: MLA, 1996.____

Miller, Hildy. “Postmasculinist Directions in Writing Program Administration.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 20.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1996): 49-61.

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. “A Constrained Vision of the Writing Classroom.” Profession 93. New York: MLA, 1993. 46-54.

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. “Becoming a Warrior: Lessons of the Feminist Workplace.” Feminine Principles and Women’s Experience in American Composition and Rhetoric.” Eds. Louise Wetherbee Phelps and Janet Emig. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1994. 289-339.

WPA Job Descriptions

“Administration of the Composition Course: The Report of the Workshop No. 13.” CCC 1.2 (May 1950): 40-42.

“Administration of the Composition Course: the Report of Workshop No. 13.” CCC 2.4 (December 1951): 24-26.

Bishop, Wendy. “Toward a Definition of a Writing Program Administrator: Expanding Roles and Evolving Responsibilities.” Freshman English Notes (Fall 1987): 11-13.

Bloom, Lynn Z. “Bloom’s Laws.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 21.1 (Fall 1997): 85-87.

Bloom, Lynn Z. “I Want a Writing Director.” CCC 43 (1992): 176-78.

Hult, Christine, et al. “’The Portland Resolution’: Guidelines for Writing Program Administrator Positions.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 16.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1992): 88-94.

Janangelo, Joseph. “Somewhere Between Disparity and Despair: Writing Program Administrators, Image Problems, and the MLA Job Information List.” WPA: Writing Program Administrator 15.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1991): 60-66.

Recchio, Thomas and Lynn Z. Bloom. “Initiation Rites, Initiation Rights.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 14.3 (Spring 1991): 21-26.

Preparation/Professionalism/Professionalization of WPAs

Abbott, Andrew. “The Order of Professionalization.” Work and Occupations 18.4 (November 1991): 355-384.

Anson, Chris M. and Carol Rutz. “Graduate Students, Writing Programs, and Consensus-Based Management: Collaboration in the Face of Disciplinary Ideology.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 21.2/3 (Spring 1998): 106-20.

Barr-Ebest, Sally. “Preparing the Next Generation of WPAs: A Study of Graduate Students in Composition/Rhetoric.” Unpublished ms.

Berkenkotter, Carol, Thomas N. Huckin, and John Ackerman. “Conventions, Conversations, and the Writer: Case Study of a Student in a Rhetoric Ph.D. Program.” Research in the Teaching of English 22.1 (February 1988): 9-44.

Bledstein, Burton J. The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. New York: Norton, 1978. (selected excerpts)

Gunner, Jeanne. “Our Crowd(ing): the WPA Membership and Some Questions on Insularity.” Paper presented at the 1998 WPA Conference, Tucson, AZ.

Larson, Magali Sarfatti. The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis. Berkeley: U of California P, 1977. (selected excerpts)

Long, Mark C., Jennifer H. Holberg, and Marcy M. Taylor. “Beyond Apprenticeship: Graduate Students, Professional Development Programs and the Future(s) of English Studies.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 20.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1996): 66-78.

Miller, Richard. “’Let’s Do the Numbers’: Comp Droids and the Prophets of Doom.” Profession 1999: 96-105.

Miller, Thomas P. “Why Don’t Our Graduate Programs Do a Better Job of Preparing Students for the Work That We Do? WPA: Writing Program Administration 24.3 (Spring 2001): 41-58.

Ohman, Richard. English in America: A Radical View of the Profession. New York: Oxford U P, 1976.

Ohman, Richard. Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and Class at the Turn of the Century. New York: Verso, 1996.

Peters, Bradley. “Enculturation, Not Alchemy: Professionalizing Novice Writing Program Administrators.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 21.2/3 (Spring 1998): 121-36.

Peterson, Linda. “The WPA’s Progress: A Survey, Story and Commentary on the Career Patterns of Writing Program Administrators.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 10.3 (1987): 11-18.

Schell, Eileen E. "Who's the Boss?: the Possibilities and Pitfalls of Collaborative Administration for Untenured WPAs." WPA 21.1/2 (Spring 1998): 65-

Stygall, Gail. “Certifying Knowledge: Options for WPAs.” Paper presented at 1997 WPA Conference, Houghton MI.

Thomas, Trudelle. “The Graduate Student as Apprentice WPA: Experiencing the Future.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 14.3 (Spring 1991): 41-51.

Trimbur, John. “Writing Instruction and the Politics of Professionalization.” Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Change. Ed. Lynn Bloom, Donald Daiker, and Edward White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996. 133-45

WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AS INTELLECTUAL WORK

General Issues

Bullock, Richard H. “When Administration Becomes Scholarship: The Future of Writing Program Administration.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 11.1/2 (Fall 1987): 13-18.

Boehm, Diane, Suellen Duffey, Theresa Enos, and Jeanne Gunner. “Responses to ‘Evaluating the Intellectual Work of WPAs: A Draft’.” WPA 20.3 (Spring 1997): 17-?

Hult, Christine. “Scholarship of Administration.” Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs. Eds. Joseph Janangelo and Kristine Hansen. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1995.

McClintock, Charles. “Administrators as Applied Theorists.” Advances in Program Theory. New Directions for Program Evaluation #47, Fall 1990. 19-33

MLA Commission on Professional Service. “Making Faculty Work Visible: Reinterpreting Professional Service, Teaching, and Research in the Fields of Language and Literature.” Profession 96. New York: MLA, 1996. 161-216.

WPA Executive Committee. “Evaluating the Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administrators: A Draft. WPA 20.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1996): 92-?

Writing Program Administrator as Program Designer and Agent of Institutional Change

Bamberg, Betty. “Alternative Models of First-year Composition: Possibilities and Problems.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 21.1 (Fall 1997): 7-18.

Crowley, Sharon. “Composition’s Ethic of Service, the Universal Requirement, and the Discourse of Student Need.” JAC 15.2 (1995): 227-39.

Chase, Geoffrey. “Redefining Composition, Managing Change, and the Role of the WPA.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 21.1 (Fall 1997): 46-54.

Gale, Irene. “Conflicting Paradigms: Theoretical and Administrative Tensions in Writing Program Administration.” WPA: Writing program Administration 14.1-2 (Fall/winter 1990): 41-50.

Little, Sherry Burgus and Shirley K Rose. “A Home of Our Own: Establishing a Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 18.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1994): 16-28.

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. "The Institutional Logic of Writing Programs: Catalyst, Laboratory, and Pattern for Change." Bullock and Trimbur

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. "Reproducing Composition and Rhetoric: The Intellectual Challenge of Doctoral Education." Composition Studies: Freshman English News 23 (Fall 1995): 115-32.

Rhoades, Gary. “The Changing Role of Faculty.” Higher Education in Transition: The Challenges of the New Millenium. Eds. Joseph Losco and Brian Fife. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2000. 29-49.

Sullivan, Francis J., et al. “Student Needs and Strong Composition: The Dialectics of Writing Program Reform.” College Composition and Communication 48.3 (October 1997): 372-91.

Weiser, Irwin. “Preparing Students to Write in the Liberal Arts: A Survey of Writing Expectations.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

Writing Program Administrator as Program Evaluator

Guba, Egon G. and Yvonne S. Lincoln. Effective Evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982.

Martin, Wanda. “Outcomes Assessment Research as a Teaching Tool.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

White, Edward M., William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri, Eds. Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices. New York: MLA, 1997.

White, Edward M. “The Rhetorical Problem of Program Evaluation and the WPA.” In Janangelo and Hansen.

Witte, Stephen and Lester Faigley. Evaluating College Writing Programs. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

???? “Selected Bibliography on Postsecondary Writing Assessment.” CCC 43 (May 1992): 253-___

Writing Program Administrator as Teacher-Educator/WPA and Writing Faculty Development

Blakemore, Peter. "An Intentionally Ecological Approach to Teacher Training." WPA 21:2/3 (Spring 1998): 137-149

Irmscher, William. "TA Training: A Period of Discovery."

Pytlik, Betty P and Sarah Liggett. Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories,Theories, Programs, Practices. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Strenski, Ellen. “Recruiting and Explaining Experienced Teachers: Balancing Game Plans in an Entrepreneurial Force-Field.” Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs. Eds. Joseph Janangelo and Kristine Hansen. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1995. 82-99.

Writing Program Administrator as Researcher

Anson, Chris M. and Ropbert L. Brown, Jr. “Subject to Interpretation: The Role of Research in Writing Programs and its Relationship to the Politics of Administration in Higher Education.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

Bamberg, Betty. “Conflicts Between Teaching and Assessing Writing: Using Program-Based Research to Resolve Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

Ferganchick-Neufang, Julia. “Research (Im)Possibilities: Feminist Methods and WPA Inquiry.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

Gere, Anne Ruggles. "The Long Revolution in Composition." Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Change. Ed. Lynn Bloom, Donald Daiker, and Edward White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.

Harris, Muriel. “Diverse Research Methodologies at Work for Diverse Audiences: Shaping the Writing Center to the Institution.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

McKernan, John. Curriculum Action Research: A Handbook of Methods and Resources for the Reflective Practitioner. London: Kogan Page, 1991.

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. “Practical Wisdom and the Geography of Knowledge in Composition.” College English 47 (1992): 338-56.

Evaluating Writing Program Administrators

Boyer, Ernest. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Princeton, NJ: the Carnegie Foundation, 1990.

Gebhardt, Richard C. and Barbara Genelle Smith Gebhardt, Eds. Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997.

Beidler, Peter. “The WPA Evaluation: A Recent Case History.”

McLeod, Susan. “Requesting a Consultant-Evaluator Visit.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 14.3 (Spring 1991): 69-77.

Schwegler, Robert. “Defining, Describing, and Evaluating the Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administrators: A Project Proposal.” Adopted by the WPA Executive Committee, March 1994.

WPA as Program Archivist

Mirtz, Ruth M. “WPAs as Historians: Discovering a First Year Writing Program by Researching Its Past.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

Rose, Shirley K. “Discovering and Preserving Our Histories of Institutional Change: The WPA’s Intellectual Work in the Writing Program Archives.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999.

Smith, Dorothy E. “The Social Construction of Documentary Reality.” Sociological Inquiry 44 (1974): 257-68.

Zimmerman, Ray and Ellen Strenski. “Using the World Wide Web for Instructional Development: Writing Program Home Pages, On-Line Course Manuals, and Web-Archived Staff Listservs.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 20.3 (Spring 1997): 91-101.

WPA as Para-legal: Legal Issues for Writing Program Administrators

“Buckley Amendment”—Title 20 U.S. Code Section 12329—Student’s Right to Privacy

Miles, Libby and Candace Spigelman. “Flexible, Responsive Classroom Practice; What Writing Teachers Need to Know about Their Fair use Rights.” The Council Chronicle September 1998: 8.

Porter, Jim (James E.). “Position Statement,” Presented at “Copyright and Consent: What Policies Should Composition Journals and Presses Adopt Concerning Publication of Student Writing and Student-Based Research?” CCCC 1998, Chicago, IL.

Porter, James E. “Legal Realities and Ethical Hyperrealities: A Critical Approach Toward Cyberwriting.” Computers and Technical Communication: Pedagogical and Programmatic Perspectives. Stuart A. Selber, Ed. Volume 3 in ATTW Contemporary Studies in Technical Communication. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997.

RESEARCHING WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

Bishop, Wendy and Gay Lynn Crossley. “How to Tell a Story of Stopping: The Complexities of Narrating a WPA’s Experience.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 19.3 (Spring 1996): 70-79.

Danzig, Arnold B. “Leadership Stories: What Novices Learn by Crafting the Stories of Experienced School Administrators.” Journal of Educational Administration 35.2 (1997): 122-37.

OTHER

Bishop, Wendy. “ Writing Is/And Therapy?: Raising Questions about Writing Classrooms and Writing Program Administration.” Journal of Advanced Composition. 13.2 (Fall 1993): 503-16.

RESOURCES

Writing Center Administration

Harris, Muriel. “What's Up and What's In: Trends and Traditions in Writing Centers.” Writing Center Journal. 11.1 (Fall-Win 1990): 15-25.

Kinkead, Joyce A. and Jeanette G. Harris. Writing Centers in Context: Twelve Case Studies. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1993.

Christina Murphy, Joe Law, and Steve Sherwood. Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.

ESL Issues in Writing Program Administration

Belcher, Diane, and George Braine, eds. Academic Writing in a Second Language: Essays on Research and Pedagogy. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1995

Ferris, Dana, and John S. Hedgcock. Teaching ESL Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998.

Hamp-Lyons, Liz, ed. Assessing Second Language Writing in Academic Contexts. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1991.

Severino, Carol, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnella E. Butler, eds. Writing in Multicultural Settings. New York: MLA, 1997.

Silva, Tony. “An Examination of Writing Program Administrators’ Options for the Placement of ESL Students in First-year Writing Classes.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 18.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1994): 37-43.

Silva, Tony. “Toward an Understanding of the Distinct Nature of L2 Writing: The ESL Research and Its Implications.” TESOL Quarterly 27.4 (Winter 1993): 657-77.