Exercises/Assignments/Speakers

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Discuss issues in graduate preparation for writing program administration; initial descriptions of WPA work

1/17

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

Review "Portland Resolution" and "Intellectual Work" document at Council of WPAs website; 

Complete "Metaphors and Narratives" writing exercise

1/24

Discuss "Metaphors and Narratives" exercise and readings; 

1/31

Discuss "Lists and Lexicons" exercise and readings

Lists and Lexicons exercise

2/7

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. 

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. 

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.  

Discuss "Documents and Archives" exercise and readings

2/14

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

"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.

2/21

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. 

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

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.

2/28

Barr-Ebest, Sally. "The Generation of WPAs: A Study of Graduate Students in Composition/Rhetoric." WPA: Writing Program Administration 22.3 (Spring 1999): 65-84. 

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. 

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.

1:30-2:20

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

Spring 1998 issue of WPA

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

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

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 

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

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

Progress Reports; 

Jennifer and Christine present

3/27

Rose, Shirley K and Irwin Weiser, eds. The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999 

Rose, Shirley K and Irwin Weiser. "WPA Inquiry in Reflection and Action." (v-xi) 

Harris, Muriel. "Diverse Research Methodolgoies at Work for Diverse Audiences: Shaping the Writing Center to the Institution." (1-17) 

Bamberg, Betty. "Conflicts Between Teaching and Assessing Writing: Using Program-Based Research to Resolve Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas." (28-39) 

Anson, Chris M. and Robert L. Brown, Jr. "Subject to Interpretation: The Role of Research in Writing Programs and its Relationship to the Politics of Administration in Higher Education." (141-152)

Practice Situated Perform' Activity; 

4/3

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, 1999. 168-184. 

Bushman, Donald. "The WPA as Pragmatist: Recasting 'Service' as 'Human Science'." WPA: Writing Program Administration 23.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1999): 29-43. 

Mapping Writing Program Administration   

Peeples, Tim. ""Seeing' the WPA With/Through Postmodern Mapping." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999. 153-167. 
 

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. 

Yancey, Kathleen Blake and Meg Morgan. "Reflective Essays, Curriculum, and the Scholarship of Administration: Notes Toward Administrative Scholarly Work. The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999. 81-94 

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. "The Institutional Logic of Writing Programs: Catalyst, Laboratory, and Pattern for Change." The Politics of Writing: Postsecondary. Ed. Richard Bullock and John Trimbur. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991. 155-70.

Jeff Jablonski 

1:30-2:20; 

Bridget presents

4/17

Rose, Shirley K and Margaret Finders. "Learning from Experience: Using Situated Performances in Writing Teacher Development." WPA: Writing Program Administration 22.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1998): 33-52. 

Liggett, Sarah. "After the Practicum: Assessing Teacher Preparation Programs." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999. 65-80.

Guest Speaker: 
Karen Bishop

4/24

Roen, Duane H. "Writing Administration as Scholarship and Teaching. Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure. Ed. Richard C. Gebhardt and Barbara Genelle Gebhardt. 43-55. 

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