Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
Published on 19. March 2012
290 pages
978-1-60235-306-0 (ISBN)
Description
WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AT SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES presents an empirical study of the writing programs at one hundred small, private liberal arts colleges. Jill M. Gladstein and Dara Rossman Regaignon provide detailed information about a type of writing program not often highlighted in the scholarly record and offer a model for such national, multi-institutional research.
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Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
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03/2012
Parlor Press
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JILL M. GLADSTEIN is Associate Professor of English and directs the Writing Associates Program at Swarthmore College, which received a CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence. She is one of the co-founders and the current chair of the Small Liberal Arts College-Writing Program Administrators consortium. She has published on writing centers, writing fellows programs, and writing program administration. Her articles have appeared in WPA: Writing Program Administration and Across the Disciplines.
Content
- Front cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword: Writing Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Treasures in Small Packages
- Carol Rutz
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Studying Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
- Part I: A Grounded Theory of Writing Program Administration
- 1 The Small Liberal Arts College Structure of Feeling
- 2 Grounded Theory and Mixed Methods Research
- 3 Mapping Small College Sites of Writing
- 4 Configurations of Writing Program Leadership
- 5 Positioning of Writing Program Administrators
- Part II: Curriculum-Centered Writing Instruction
- 6 Writing Requirements
- 7 Staffing First-Year Writing
- 8 Redefining Small College Writing Programs: Leadership Configurations and Writing Requirements
- Part III: Student-Centered Writing Instruction
- 9 Writing Centers
- 10 Supporting Diversely Prepared Writers
- Part IV: Small College Writing Programs
- 11 Assessment
- 12 Conclusion
- Appendix B: Writing at SLACs survey
- Appendix C: Initial E-mail Invitation to Complete the Survey
- Appendix D: Supplemental Tables
- Appendix E: Assessment Materials from Occidental College
- Appendix F: List of Questions for Schools to Consider when Investigating Writing Program Structures
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Authors
- Back cover
