Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context features profiles of exemplary and innovative writing programs across varied institutions. Situated within an ecological framework, the book explores the dynamic...
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Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context features profiles of exemplary and innovative writing programs across varied institutions. Situated within an ecological framework, the book explores the dynamic inter-relationships as well as the complex rhetorical and material conditions that writing programs inhabit-conditions and relationships that are constantly in flux as writing program administrators negotiate constraint and innovation. Front cover -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Writing Program Ecologies: An Introduction -- Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, and Christian Weisser -- Part I. The Contested Ecologies of FYC Programs: Negotiating between Stability and Change -- 1 The Kairotic Moment: Pragmatic Revision of Basic Writing Instruction at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne -- Sara Webb-Sunderhaus and Stevens Amidon -- 2 Standardizing English 101 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Reflections on the Promise of Improved GTA Preparation and More Effective Writing Instruction -- Ronda Leathers Dively -- 3 Taking the High Road: Teaching for Transfer in an FYC Program -- Jenn Fishman and Mary Jo Reiff -- 4 Intractable Writing Program Problems, Kairos, and Writing-about-Writing: A Profile of the University of Central Florida's First-Year Composition Program -- Elizabeth Wardle -- Part II. Remapping Interdisciplinary Ecologies: WAC and WID Programs -- 5 The Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia -- Michelle Ballif -- 6 Back to the Future: First-Year Writing in the Binghamton University Writing Initiative, State University of New York -- Kelly Kinney and Kristi Murray Costello -- 7 Imagining a Writing and Rhetoric Program Based on Principles of Knowledge "Transfer": Dartmouth's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric -- Stephanie Boone, Sara Biggs Chaney, Josh Compton, Christiane Donahue, and Karen Gocsik -- Part III. Claiming Disciplinary Locations: The Undergraduate Major in Rhetoric and Composition -- 8 Diverse Lessons: Developing an Undergraduate Program in Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture at Texas A& -- M -- Stephanie L. Kerschbaum and M. Jimmie Killingsworth -- 9 Reflections on the Major in Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University.
