Discord and direction : the postmodern writing program administrator / edited by Sharon James McGee, Carolyn Handa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGee, Sharon James.

Handa, Carolyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

Postmodernism and higher education.

Writing centers--Administration.

Writing centers.

Physical Description:

ix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2005]

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 ... [et al.]

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 ... [et al.]

Mirror, mirror on the web: visual depiction, identity, and the writing program / Carolyn Handa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.

ISBN:

0874216176

OCLC:

60492035