Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration, The
Published on 26. January 2008
372 pages
978-1-60235-052-6 (ISBN)
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Combining formal quantitative research with narrative-based scholarship, THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION represents multiple voices from faculty balancing between the demands of teaching, writing, and administering writing programs in professional, ethical ways-often under circumstances that can be defined, at best, as difficult. In these pages, junior faculty tell their stories of triumph and trauma, while more firmly established composition scholars reflect upon the changing and challenging profession we all share.
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Theresa Enos | Shane Borrowman
The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration
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Content
- Front cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- John Trimbur
- 1 Living in the Spaces Between: Profiling the Writing Program Administrator
- Jillian Skeffington, Shane Borrowman, and Theresa Enos
- 2 "Creating a Context": The Institutional Logic of the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Development of the Consultant-Evaluator Service
- Shirley K Rose
- 3 Credibility, Disciplinary Bias, and the WPA
- Sharing WPA Perils as Pearls of Wisdom
- Ernest J. Enchelmayer
- Two Things
- Patti J. Kurtz
- Rocking the Boat: Asserting Authority and Change in a Writing Program
- Richard McNabb
- Irreconcilable Differences: One Former WPD's Cautionary Tale
- Erin O'Neill
- Portraits of a Field
- Chris Anson Jeanne Gunner Thomas P. Miller
- 4 Tenure-Track Faculty as WPAs
- Notes from a New WPA
- Megan Fulwiler
- "An Army of One: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of WPA Work for the Lone Compositionist"
- Randall McClure
- Why I Won't Keep My Head Down or Follow Other Bad Advice for the Junior Faculty WPA
- Stephanie Roach
- Writing Program Administration at the Small University
- Matt Smith
- Location and the WPA
- Stuart C. Brown, Andrea A. Lunsford, and Edward M. White
- 5 Non Tenure-Track Faculty as WPAs
- Without Title: One NTT's Struggle in the TT Society
- Nita Danko
- Skeletons in the Closet, Ghosts, and Other Invisible Creatures
- Suellynn Duffey
- Neither Fish Nor Fowl: The Promise and Peril of Directing a Program on an Administrative Line
- Claire C. Lamonica
- One White Girl's Failed Attempt to Unsilence the Dialogue
- Cynthia Nearman
- Three Reflections and an Observation
- Susan H. McLeod, Victor Villanueva, and Douglas Hesse
- 6 Tenure, Promotion, and the WPA
- What Is Research and Writing?
- Emily Isaacs
- A New WPA at a Small Private School with Large Public(ation) Expectations
- Camille Langston
- Fit for an Unfit Fittedness: National Writing Project Site Directors as WPAs
- Chere L. Peguesse
- Will Administrate for Tenure, or, Be Careful What You Ask For
- E. Shelley Reid
- A Prologue and Three Responses
- Duane Roen, Kathleen Blake Yancey, and David Schwalm
- 7 Understanding Ourselves, Our Work, and Our Working Conditions
- At the Pleasure of the Chair: A Cautionary Tale from the Private Side of the Public Story
- Elizabeth Hodges
- Diversity Work and the WPA: Feminist Writing Center Work Prior to Tenure
- Ann E. Green
- "Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't": The Ethical and Professional Dilemmas of WPA Work for Those Who Know Better
- Melissa Nicolas
- Exploitation, Opportunity, and Writing Program Administration
- Christine Norris
- Three Responses and a Prologue
- Martha A. Townsend, Art Young, and Louise Wetherbee Phelps
- 8 Identity Theft of a Writing Center Director: The New Art of Academic Punishment
- Margaret E. Weaver
- 9 From Adjunct Wrangler to Autonomous WPA: The Surprising Benefits of Pretenure Writing Program Administration
- Lauren Sewell Ingraham
- Appendix A
- WPA Survey
- Appendix B
- The Portland Resolution
- Appendix C
- Council of Writing Program Administrators Statement on Intellectual Work
- Appendix D
- The WPA Outcomes Statement
- Contributors
- Index
