WPA

WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within programmatic contexts advocacy and institutional critique and change; writing programs and their extra-institutional relationships with writing’s publics; technology and the delivery of writing instruction within programmatic contexts; wpa and writing program histories and contexts; WAC / ECAC / WID and their intersections with writing programs; the theory and philosophy of writing program administration issues of professional advancement and wpa work; and projects that enhance wpa work with diverse stakeholders. CONTENTS OF WPA 35.1: From the Editors | Are We Having the Effect We Want? Implementing Outcomes Assessment in an Academic English Language-Support Unit Using a Multi-component Approach by Li-Shih Huang | Credentialing College Writing Teachers: WPAs and Labor Reform by Steve Lamos | For Slow Agency by Laura R. Micciche | Improving the Placement of L2 Writers: The Students’ Perspective by Todd Ruecker | Writing Programs Without Administrators: Frameworks for Successful Writing Programs in the Two-Year College by Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt | Research and Policy: Antithetical or Complementary? by Barbara Cambridge | A SYMPOSIUM on Mentoring the Work of WPAs: Reflections on Year One as an Almost-WPA by Joyce Olewski Inman | Snapshot of a Tenure Decision by Kathryn Johnson Gindlesparger | The Pleasures and Perils of Being First by Darci L. Thoune | Hit the Ground Listening: An Ethnographic Approach to New WPA Learning by Collie Fulford | Boss of Me: When the Former Adjunct Runs the Writing Shop by Tim McCormack | Response to Peter Elbow’s Review of What Is College-Level Writing? Volumes 1 and 2 by Kelly Ritter | Response to Kelly Ritter by Peter Elbow | REVIEW ESSAYS Ecology and Concepts of Technology by Sidney I. Dobrin | Second Language Writers in College Composition Programs: Toward Awareness, Knowledge and Action by Tanita Saenkhum and Paul Kei Matsuda | Contributors