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  title info:
    title: Discord and direction
    sub title: the postmodern writing program administrator
  title info:
    title: Discord & direction
  name:
    name part: McGee, Sharon James.
  name:
    name part: Handa, Carolyn.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: utu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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. It is a given that accepting the role of WPA will land you squarely in the bind between modernism and postmodernism: while composition studies as a field arguably still reflects a modernist ethos, the WPA must grapple daily with postmodern habits of thought and ways of being. The effort to live in this role may or may not mean that a WPA will adopt a postmodern stance; it does mean, however, that being a WPA requires dealing with the postmodern.
  table of contents: Where discord meets direction: the role of consultant-evaluation in writing program administration / Deborah H. 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, Marcy 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 J. 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.
  note: edited by Sharon James McGee, Carolyn Handa.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Rhetoric
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Report writing
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
  subject:
    topic: Postmodernism and higher education
  subject:
    topic: Writing centers
    topic: Administration
  subject:
    topic: English language
  subject:
    topic: Postmodernism and higher education
  subject:
    topic: Report writing
  subject:
    topic: Writing centers
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Rhetoric
  subject:
    topic: REFERENCE
    topic: Writing Skills
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Composition & Creative Writing
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION
    topic: Higher
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Rhetoric
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Postmodernism and higher education
  subject:
    topic: Report writing
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
  subject:
    topic: Writing centers
    topic: Administration
  classification: PE1404 .D576 2005eb
  classification: 808/.042/0711
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Discord and direction
    origin info:
      publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2005
    identifier: (DLC) 2005014248
    identifier: (OCoLC)60492035
  identifier: 087421520X
  identifier: 9780874215205
  identifier: 0874216176
  identifier: 9780874216172
  identifier: 1283275236
  identifier: 9781283275231
  identifier: 22573/ctt47ms4n JSTOR
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 051203
    record change date: 20260728172620.1
    record identifier: in00003856974
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng