Full draft for second project is due
WPA as Theorist
Read the following:
McClintock, Charles. “Administrators as Applied Theorists.” Advances in Program Theory. New Directions for Program Evaluation #47, Fall 1990. 19-33. (coursepack)
Weiser, Irwin and Shirley K Rose. "Theorizing Writing Program Theorizing." The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist: Making Knowledge Work. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2002. 183-196. (on reserve)
Gunner, Jeanne. "Ideology, Theory, and the Genre of Writing Programs." The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist: Making Knowledge Work. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NJ: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2002. 7-18. (on reserve)
Bishop, Karen. "On the Road to (Documentary) Reality: Capturing the Intellectual and Political Process of Writing Program Administration." The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist: Making Knowledge Work. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2002. 42-53. (on reserve)
Peeples, Tim. "Program Administrators as/and Postmodern Planners: Frameworks for Making Tomorrow's Writing Space." The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist: Making Knowledge Work. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2002. 116-128. (0n reserve)
Jablonski, Jeffrey. "Developing Practice Theories Through Collaborative Research: Implications for WPA Scholarship." The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist: Making Knowledge Work. Eds. Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2002. 170-182. (on reserve)
Reflection: Three of these readings on WPAs as Theorists are by recent graduates of Purdue’s Ph.D program in Rhetoric and Composition (Bishop, Peeples, and Jablonski) and are based on their dissertation projects. Using these chapters as your primary evidence, briefly characterize the goals of Purdue’s Ph.D. Secondary Area in Writing Program Administration. Your characterization can be in any format or genre that seems appropriate—list, short essay, cartoon (with commentary), etc.
