Council Writing Program Administrators

Wpa Council Writing Program Administrators

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 42.1 (Fall 2018): Standing for Time: Publishing in WPA by Lori Ostergaard, Jim Nugent, and Jacob Babb Kurt Cobain, Writing Program Administrator by William DeGenaro Looking through Narrow Windows: Problem-Setting and Problem-Solving Strategies of Novice Teachers by Carolyn A. Wisniewski Reclaiming Writing Placement by Heidi Estrem, Dawn Shepherd, and Samantha Sturman "Give All Thoughts a Chance" Writing about Writing and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy by Sandie Friedman and Robert Miller by Mentoring WPAs for the Long Term: The Promise of Mindfulness by Cindy Moore Plenary Address: Innovation through Intentional Administration: Or, How to Lead a Writing Program Without Losing Your Soul by Susan Miller-Cochran Book Reviews: Languages and Literacies in Motion: Transnationalism and Mobility Matters in Writing Studies by Nancy Bou Ayash Rewriting Labor in Composition by Meridith Reed Viewing Directed Self-Placement Through a Multilingual, Multicultural, Transdisciplinary, and Ethical Lens by Marie Webb