Professor Rose at CCCC. No reading assignment. Use class time for workshops on projects
Assignment for April 8 and 10
Full draft of Fourth Project is due on April 10.
Megan presents her Situated Performance Activity on April 8.
Cris presents her book review and Harris presents his job description analysis on April 10
Representing WPA Knowledge
Read the following:
MLA Commission on Professional Service. "Making Faculty Work Visible: Reinterpreting Professional Service, Teaching, and Research in the Fields of Language and Literature." Profession 96. New York: MLA, 1996. 161-216. (coursepack)
Bullock, Richard H. "When Administration Becomes Scholarship: The Future of Writing Program Administration." WPA: Writing Program Administration 11.1/2 (Fall 1987): 13-18. (on disk)
Hult, Christine. "The Scholarship of Administration." Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs. Ed. Joseph Janangelo and Kristine Hansen. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1995. 119-131. (coursepack)
Roen, Duane H. "Writing Administration as Scholarship and Teaching." Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure. Ed. Richard C. Gebhardt and Barbara Genelle Gebhardt. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996. 43-55. (coursepack)
Bushman, Donald. "The WPA as Pragmatist: Recasting 'Service' as 'Human Science'." WPA: Writing Program Administration 23.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1999): 29-43. (on disk)
Speculation: Consider this week’s reading in the context of our other reading, writing, and discussions this semester. All of these readings are at least a decade old. Based on your own reading of more recent scholarship, would you say that it is time to update these discussions/descriptions of WPA scholarship? If so, what would be the most effective form for this updating to take? If not, what ideas about WPA scholarship seem to be most resistant to change? Your response can take any form, but should be equal to a 500-word short essay in scope.
We'll begin our discussion of the readings on Tuesday and continue on Thursday. Please have your response ready for Tuesday's class.
