Wpa - Writing Program Administration 34.2 (Paperback)

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 34.2: From the Editors - "Addressing Instructor Ambivalence about Peer Review and Self-Assessment" by Pamela Bedore and Brian O'Sullivan - "Troubling the Boundaries: (De)Constructing WPA Identities at the Intersections of Race and Gender" by Collin Lamont Craig and Staci Maree Perryman-Clark - "Lessons about Writing to Learn from a University-High School Partnership" by Bradley Peters - "Cohorts, Grading, and Ethos: Listening to TAs Enhances Teacher Preparation" Amy Rupiper Taggart and Margaret Lowry - "WPAs Respond to "A Symposium on Fostering Teacher Quality" "Response to "A Symposium on Fostering Teacher Quality" by Sue Doe - "Fostering Teacher Quality through Cultures of Professionalism" by Claire Coleman Lamonica - "Response to "A Symposium on Fostering Teacher Quality" by Mike Palmquist - "Crabgrass and Gumbo: Interviews with 2011 WPA Conference Local Hosts about the Place of Writing Programs at their Home Institutions" by Shirley K Rose, Irwin Peckham, and James C. McDonald - REVIEW ESSAYS: "What Is Real College Writing? Let the Disagreement Never End" by Peter Elbow - "Reinventing Writing Assessment: How the Conversation Is Shifting" by William Condon - Contributors