Introduction, with some rhetorical terms / Rita Malenczyk -- What are students? / Kelly Ritter -- What is placement? / Dan Royer and Roger Gilles -- What is basic writing? / Hannah Ashley -- What is first-year composition? / Doug Downs -- What is ESL? / Gail Shuck -- What are writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines? / Martha A. Townsend -- What is general education? / Lauren Fitzgerald -- What is institutional mission? / Elizabeth Vander Lei and Melody Pugh -- What is pre-college credit? / Kristine Hansen -- What is transfer articulation? / David E. Schwalm -- What is transfer? / Elizabeth Wardle -- What is assessment? / Susanmarie Harrington -- What is a writing instructor? / Eileen E. Schell -- What is faculty development? / Carol Rutz and Stephen Wilhoit -- What is TA education? / E. Shelley Reid -- What is a union? / Seth Kahn -- What is the writing center? / Neal Lerner -- What is a writing program history? / Shirley K. Rose -- What are The Administration and The Budget? (and why are we talking about them together?) / Irwin Weiser -- What is NSSE? / Charles Pain, Robert M. Gonyea, Chris M. Anson, and Paul V. Anderson -- What is the National Writing Project? / William P. Banks -- What is community literacy? / Eli Goldblatt -- What is class size? / Gregory R. Glau -- What are institutional politics? / Tom Fox and Rita Malenczyk -- What is academic freedom? / Mary R. Boland -- What are educational standards? / Peggy O'Neill -- What is policy? / Chris W. Gallagher -- What is an English department? / Melissa Ianetta -- What is The Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administrators? / Joseph Janangelo -- What is WPA research? / Christiane Donahue -- What is principle? / Linda Adler-Kassner -- What is a personal life? / Douglas Hesse
A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators delineates the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration and provides readers new to that field with theoretical lenses through which to view those issues and questions. In brief and direct though not oversimplified chapters, A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators explains the historical and theoretical background of such concepts as "academic freedom," "first-year composition," "basic writing," "writing across the curriculum," "placement," "ESL," "general education," and "transfer." Its thirty-nine contributors are seasoned writing program and center administrators who, in a range of voices, map the discipline of writing program administration and guide readers toward finding their own answers to solving problems at their own institutions
