The outcomes book : debate and consensus after the WPA outcomes statement / edited by Susanmarie Harrington ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrington, Susanmarie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

United States.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Report writing.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Physical Description:

xix, 240 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2005]

Summary:

The "WPA Outcomes Statement" is important because it represents a working consensus among composition scholars about what college students should learn and do in a composition program. But as a single-page document, the Statement cannot convey the kind of reflective process that a writing program must undertake to address the learning outcomes described.

The Outcomes Book relates the fuller process by exploring the matrix of concerns that surrounded the developing Statement itself, and by presenting the experience of many who have since employed it in their own settings.

For departments, programs, and individuals, this collection levers the Outcomes Statement in all its simplicity and its complexity into a rich discussion of the programmatic essentials of writing theory and pedagogy-and what these look like at writing programs informed by the Outcomes Statement. It is written in the hope that faculty and administrators alike will use the WPA Statement as a tool for cyclically reflecting on their own programs and practice.

Contents:

Introduction: Celebrating and Complicating the Outcomes Statement / Susanmarie Harrington xv

Part 1 Contextualizing the Outcomes Statement

1 The Origins of the Outcomes Statement / Edward M. White 3

2 The Outcomes Project: The Insiders' History / Keith Rhodes, Irvin Peckham, Linda S. Bergmann, William Condon 8

3 Standards, Outcomes and All That Jazz / Kathleen Blake Yancey 18

4 Outcomes are not Mandates for Standardization / Mark Wiley 24

5 Expanding Our Understanding of Composing Outcomes / Cynthia L. Selfe, Patricia Freitag Ericsson 32

Part 2 The Outcomes Statement and First-Year Writing

6 The WPA Outcomes Statement Goes to High School / Stephen Wilhoit 39

7 The Outcomes Statement at a Community College: Verification, Accreditation, and Articulation / J. L. McClure 51

8 Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A View from the Field / Linda Adler-Kassner, Heidi Estrem 60

9 More Than the Latest PC Buzzword for Modes: What Genre Theory Means to Composition / Barbara Little Liu 72

10 Processes and Outcomes in Arizona's Higher Education System / Duane Roen, Gregory R. Glau 85

11 Knowledge of Conventions and the Logic of Error / Donald Wolff 97

12 Celebrating through Interrogation: Considering the Outcomes Statement through Theoretical Lenses / Patricia Freitag Ericsson 104

Part 3 The Outcomes Statement Beyond First-Year Writing

13 What the Outcomes Statement Could Mean for Writing across the Curriculum / Martha A. Townsend 121

14 First-Year Outcomes and Upper-Level Writing / Susanmarie Harrington 127

15 Using the Outcomes Statement for Technical Communication / Barry M. Maid 139

16 Using Writing Outcomes to Enhance Teaching and Learning: Alverno College's Experience / Robert O'Brien Hokanson 150

17 What the Outcomes Statement Is Not: A Reading of the Boyer Commission Report / Rita Malenczyk 162

Part 4 Theorizing Outcomes

18 The Outcomes Statement as Theorizing Potential: Through a Looking Glass / Ruth Overman Fischer 171

19 A Friendly Challenge to Push the Outcomes Statement Further / Peter Elbow 177

20 Outcomes and the Developing Learner / Richard H. Haswell 191

21 Practice: The Road to the Outcomes over Time / Marilyn S. Sternglass 201

Afterword: Bowling Together: Developing, Distributing, and Using the WPA Outcomes Statement-and Making Cultural Change / Kathleen Blake Yancey 211.

Notes:

This volume of essays reflects on the process that led to the development of the "WPA outcomes statement," and includes debate on the many theoretical, pedagogical, political, and assessment issues that the outcomes statement raises.

Includes bibliographical reference (pages [226]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0874216044

OCLC:

57349361