Friday, April 18, 2008

April 22 and 24 meeting in HEAV 306

Our WPA seminar will meet in HEAV 306 (the graduate conference room) next week, April 22 and 24. This space should make it a bit easier to work on the class project.

shirley

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Assignment for April 15 and 17

WPAs’ Knowledge in Context: Writing Programs in Higher Ed Institutions
Harris will present his SPA in class on April 15
We will end class in time to attend the English 106 Showcase Awards presentation.

Read the following for discussion on April 15:
Hesse, Douglas. "Understanding Larger Discourses in Higher Education: Practical Advice for WPAs." Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators. Eds. Irene Ward and William Carpenter. New York: Longman, 2002. 299-314. (coursepack)

McGee, Sharon James. “Overcoming Disappointment: Constructing Writing Program Identity through Postmodern Mapping.” Discord and Direction: The Postmodern Writing Program Administrator. Ed. Sharon James McGee and Carolyn Handa. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2005. 59-71. (coursepack)

Maid, Barry. "More Than a Room of Our Own: Building an Independent Department of Writing." Enos and Brown. 453-466. (textbook)

Merrill, Yvonne, and Thomas P. Miller. "Making Learning Visible: A Rhetorical Stance on General Education." Enos and Brown. 203-217. (textbook)

Ritter, Kelly. “Extra Institutional Agency and the Public Value of the WPA.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 29.3 (Spring 2006): 45-64 (on disk)

for April 17:
Class will meet in Computer lab in ENAD 138
to work on an online exericise on WPAs in the Borader Higher Education context