Wpa: Writing Program Administration 44.1 (Fall 2020) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781643172354)

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 44.1 (Fall 2020) EDITORS' INTRODUCTION: Meditations on the Merganser: Administration in Uncertain Times by Lori Ostergaard, Jim Nugent, and Jacob Babb STATEMENTS: CWPA Statement on Racial Injustice and Systemic Racism BY The CWPA Executive Board and Officers ARTICLES: Writing Outside of Class: The Untapped Potential of Students' Non-Academic Writing by Heather Lindenman and Paula Rosinski Toward a Rhetorical Model of Directed Self-Placement by Zhaozhe Wang The Affiliate as Mentoring Network: The Lasting Work of the Carolinas WPA by Meg Morgan, Marsha Lee Baker, Wendy Sharer, and Tracy Ann Morse A Broader View: How Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition Prepare their Graduate Students to Teach Composition by Amy Cicchino Enacting Bricolage: Theorizing the Teaching Practices of Graduate Writing Instructors by Meridith Reed (Dis)similarity and Identity: On Becoming Quasi-WPA by Andrew Hollinger and Jessie Borgman REVIEWS: The Importance of Documenting Oft-Unspoken Narratives by Sheila Carter-Tod Non-Essential: Adjuncting During COVID-19 by Christine Cucciarre