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Writing Program Administration—General
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.
Hilgers, Thomas and Joy Marsella. Making Your Writing Program Work: A Guide to Good Practices. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992.
Janangelo, Joseph and Kristine Hansen, Eds. Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1995.
Linda Myers-Breslin, ed. Administrative Problem-Solving for Writing Programs and Writing Centers: Scenarios in Effective Program Management. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999.
Petraglia, Joseph, ed. Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1995.
Crowley, Sharon. Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P, 1998.
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.
Politics/Economics of Writing Program Administration:
Bullock, Richard and John Trimbur. Politics of Writing Instruction:
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.
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).
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 ___ (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.
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.
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-?
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.
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, forthcoming.
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
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."
Writing Program Administrators 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 Methodolgoies 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.
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.
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.
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.