Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators 2e, A
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Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators 2e, A

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators 2e, A

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A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators (2nd Edition) presents the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration. The collection provides aspiring, new, and seasoned WPAs with the theoretical lenses, terminologies, historical contexts, and research they need to understand the nature, history, and complexities of their intellectual and administrative work.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Series page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Introduction, with Some Rhetorical Terms
  8. Part One: Initial Questions
  9. 1 What Are Students?
  10. 2 What Is Placement?
  11. 3 What Is Basic Writing?
  12. 4 What Is First-Year Composition?
  13. 5 What Are Threshold Concepts (and Why Are They Useful for Writing Programs)?
  14. 6 What Is ESL?
  15. 7 What Is Technology?
  16. Part 2: Complicating Questions
  17. 8 What Are Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines?
  18. 9 What Is General Education?
  19. 10 What Is Institutional Mission?
  20. 11 What Is Pre-College Credit?
  21. 11 What Is Transfer Articulation?
  22. 13 What Is Transfer?
  23. 14 What Is Assessment?
  24. 15 What Is Retention?
  25. Part 3: Personal Questions
  26. 16 What Is a Writing Instructor?
  27. 17 What Is Faculty Development?
  28. 18 What Is TA Education?
  29. 19 What Is A Union?
  30. 20 What Is the Writing Center?
  31. Part Four: Helpful Questions
  32. 21 What Is a Writing Program History?
  33. 22 What Are The Administration and The Budget? (And Why Are We Talking About Them Together?)
  34. 23 What Is NSSE?
  35. 24 What Is the National Writing Project?
  36. 25 What Is Community Literacy?
  37. Part Five: Vexed Questions
  38. 26 What Is Class Size?
  39. 27 What Are Institutional Politics?
  40. 28 What Is Academic Freedom?
  41. 29 What Are Educational Standards?
  42. 30 What Is Policy?
  43. Part Six: Eternal Questions
  44. 31 What Is an Independent Writing Department/Program?
  45. 32 What Is an English Department?
  46. 33 What Is The Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administration?
  47. 34 What Is WPA Research?
  48. 35 What Is Principle?
  49. 36 What Is a Personal Life?
  50. Contributors
  51. Index
  52. Back cover