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Discord and direction

the postmodern writing program administrator

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An edition of Discord and direction (2005)

Discord and direction

the postmodern writing program administrator

"The argument of this collection is that the cultural and intellectual legacies of postmodernism impinge, significantly and daily, on the practice of the Writing Program Administrator. WPAs work in spaces where they must assume responsibility for a multifaceted program, a diverse curriculum, instructors with varying pedagogies and technological expertise - and where they must position their program in relation to a university with its own conflicted mission, and a state with its unpredictable views of accountability and assessment."

"The collection further argues that postmodernism offers a useful lens through which to understand the work of WPAs and to examine the discordant cultural and institutional issues that shape their work. Each chapter tackles a problem local to its author's writing program or experience as a WPA, and each responds to existing discord in creative ways that move toward rebuilding and redirection."--Jacket.

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Pages
222

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Discord And Direction: The Postmodern Writing Program Administrator
August 31, 2005, Utah State University Press
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Discord and direction: the postmodern writing program administrator
2005, Utah State University Press
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Discord and Direction: The Postmodern Writing Program Administrator
2005, University Press of Colorado
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Discord and Direction: The Postmodern Writing Program Administrator
2005, University Press of Colorado
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Table of Contents

Where discord meets direction: the role of consultant-evaluation in writing program administration / Deborah Holdstein
Cold pastoral: the moral order of an idealized form / Jeanne Gunner
Beyond accommodation: individual and collective in a large writing program / Christy Desmet
Overcoming disappointment: constructing writing program identity through postmodern mapping / Sharon James McGee
The road to mainstreaming: one program's successful but cautionary tale / Anthony Edgington, Arcy Tucker, Karen Ware, and Brian Huot
Developmental administration: a pragmatic theory of evolution in basic writing / Keith Rhodes
Information technology as other: reflections on a useful problem / Mike Palmquist
Computers, innovation, and resistance in first-year composition programs / Fred Kemp
Minimum qualifications: who should teach first-year writing / Richard E. Miller and Michael Cripps
The place of assessment and reflection in writing program administration / Susanmarie Harrington
New designs for communication across the curriculum / Andrew Billings, Teddi Fishman, Morgan Gresham, Angie Justice, Michael Neal, Barbara Ramirez, Summer Smith Taylor, Melissa Tidwell Powell, Donna Winchell, Kathleen Blake Yancey, and Art Young
Mirror, mirror on the web: visual depiction, identity, and the writing program / Carolyn Handa.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808/.042/0711
Library of Congress
PE1404 .D576 2005, PE1404.D576 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
222

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3400103M
ISBN 10
0874216176
LCCN
2005014248
OCLC/WorldCat
60492035
Goodreads
721481

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Work ID
OL18335446W

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