Discord and Direction: The Postmodern Writing Program Administrator.
Postmodernism's central moves include questioning hierarchy, valuing paratactic associations, and rejecting grand narratives, and the work of a Writing Program Administrator, most days, includes those moves as well. The argument of this collection is that the cultural and intellectual legacies...
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Utah State University
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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.