WPA: Writing Program Administration 38.1 (Fall 2014) - Softcover

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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 38.1 (Fall 2014): From the Editors | People of Color Caucus Statement | "Social Contexts of Writing Assessment: Toward an Ecological Construct of the Rater" by Dylan B. Dryer and Irvin Peckham | "Thinking Liminally: Exploring the (com)Promising Positions of the Liminal WPA" by Talinn Phillips, Paul Shovlin, and Megan Titus | "Understanding Why Linked Courses Can Succeed with Students but Fail with Institutions" by Ann C. Dean | "Relentless Engagement with State Educational Policy Reform: Collaborating to Change the Writing Placement Conversation" by Heidi Estrem, Dawn Shepherd, and Lloyd Duman | "Revising FYC Outcomes for a Multimodal, Digitally Composed World: The WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (Version 3.0)" by Dylan B. Dryer, Darsie Bowden, Beth Brunk-Chavez, Susanmarie Harrington, Bump Halbritter, and Kathleen Blake Yancey for the WPA Outcomes Statement Revision Task Force | "WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition" | Review Essay: Writing in Digital Environments: Everything Old Is New Again by Norbert Elliot | CWPA 2015 Call for Proposals: Sustainable Writing/Program/Administrators