Administering writing programs in the twenty-first century /
A comprehensive guide for writing program administrators. Contains information on building a writing program, hiring and training instructors, evaluating and mentoring instructors and assessing writing programs. Includes information on fighting cultural bias, encouraging the well-being of administra...
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New York :
Modern Language Association of America,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- Dedication and acknowledgments
- Preface Introduction: a new approach for writing program administrators
- A new era for writing program administration
- Challenges of contemporary writing instruction
- The work of administrators in the digital era
- Composition learning outcomes
- Audience for this volume
- Language choices
- Humanity and composition
- Organization of this volume
- Conclusion
- Building a writing program
- Writing program development
- Structural elements
- Functioning as a community
- Leadership style and institutional politics
- Connections beyond the Institution
- Conclusion
- Humanizing the writing program
- Self-Care for the writing program administrator
- Compassionate administration
- Conclusion
- Hiring instructors
- The challenges of hiring instructors
- The job advertisement
- Practicalities of hiring instructors
- Equitable working conditions
- Setting up and conducting the interview
- Conclusion
- Training instructors
- Understanding rhetoric and how it informs pedagogy culturally competent pedagogies
- Developing and scaffolding assignments
- Ensuring equitable access
- Adopting and teaching the eportfolio
- Graduate teaching assistants as a unique population
- Training challenges
- Conclusion
- Evaluating and mentoring instructors
- Overarching concerns of evaluation
- Evaluating and mentoring instructors
- Challenges of Evaluation
- Conclusion
- Assessing writing programs
- Riding the waves of assessment
- Programmatic assessments
- Using assessments to change curricula
- Assessment challenges
- The fourth wave as future
- Conclusion
- Imagining the future of writing program administration
- Growing and maintaining a culturally inclusive and diverse program
- Providing training for faculty members
- Assessing the program
- Supporting and mentoring
- Doing the hard work
- New avenues for research
- Final thoughts notes on the authors.