Leading with the provocative observation that writing programs administration lacks "an established set of texts that provides a baseline of shared knowledge …in which to root our ongoing conversations and with which to welcome newcomers" Landmark Essays on Writing Program Administration focuses on WPA identity to propose one such grouping of texts. This Landmark volume is the cornerstone resource for new Writing Program Administrators and graduate students when seeking an ever-important overview of the literature on Writing Program Administration. Drawing broadly across scholarship in writing programs and writing centers, Ritter and Ianetta work to historicize, theorize and problematize the ever-shifting answers offered to the question: Who -- or what -- is a WPA?
| Introduction: Canon Fodder?: surveying Our Wpa Landmarks |
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SECTION 1 HISTORICIZINGWPA |
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1 Administration of the Freshman English Program |
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2 Directing Freshman Composition: The Limits of Authority |
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3 Finding Ourselves in the Past: An Argument for Historical Work on WPAs |
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4 Twenty More Years in the WPAs Progress |
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5 Searching for Robert Moore |
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69 | (20) |
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6 Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Class Consciousness in Composition |
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91 | (22) |
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7 Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers |
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113 | (8) |
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8 The WPA As Researcher and Archivist |
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121 | (14) |
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9 Let's Face It: Language Issues and the Writing Program Administrator |
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135 | (19) |
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10 Disabling Writing Program Administration |
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154 | (20) |
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11 Of Ladybugs, Low Status, and Loving the Job: Writing Center Professionals Navigating Their Careers |
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174 | (24) |
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12 WPA Work at the Small College or University: Re-Imagining Power and Making the Small School Visible |
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198 | (14) |
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13 Writing Program Administration at the Two-Year College: Ghosts in the Machine |
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212 | (19) |
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15 Redefining Work and Value for Writing Program Administration |
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241 | (15) |
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16 The Managerial Unconscious of Composition Studies |
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256 | (10) |
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17 More Than a Feeling: Disappointment and WPA Work |
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266 | (25) |
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18 The WPA as Activist: Systematic Strategies for Framing, Action, and Representation |
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291 | (17) |
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19 If Aristotle Ran the Writing Center: Classical Rhetoric and Writing Center Administration |
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308 | (20) |
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20 Building a WPA Library: A Bibliographic Exploration of the Field |
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Kelly Ritter is Professor of English and Writing Studies and Associate Dean for Curricula and Academic Policy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has seventeen years experience as a WPA across three different universities. Her most recent book is Reframing the Subject: Postwar Instructional Film and Class-Conscious Literacies (2015). From 2012 to 2017, she was editor of College English.
Melissa Ianetta is Professor of English and Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Jr. Chair in Writing at the University of Delaware, where she has served as a WPA in both the universitys writing center and the English departments composition program. She is the current editor of College English and, with Lauren Fitzgerald of Yeshiva University, she co-authored The Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors: Practice and Research.
