Innovation and restoration: a history of introductory academic writing at the University of Maryland / Robert Coogan, Jane Donawerth, and Molly J. Scanlon -- The once and future discipline: the rhetorical core of the academic and professional writing programs / Jeanne Fahnestock -- Undergraduate rhetoric at UIUC: revising a curriculum, rethinking a program / Kelly Ritter -- Breaking out of the box: expanding the WAC Program at Howard University / Teresa Redd -- Who are the specialists?: the Dependent Independent Writing Program at Cornell / Paul Sawyer -- At the intersection of feminism, rhetoric, and writing program administration / Cheryl Glenn -- Language as system and situation: writing the world / James Paul Gee -- Reconfiguring learner identities in writing pedagogy / Suresh Canagarajah -- Creating a united front: a writing program administrator's institutional investment in language rights for composition students / Staci Perryman-Clark -- What do humans do best?: developing communicative humans in the changing socio-cyborgian landscape / Charles Bazerman -- From topoi to Tweets: what ancient rhetoricians can teach digital natives / James A. Herrick -- Text, design, code: digital rhetoric in academic and professional writing / Douglas Eyman -- A beauty for informing digital bodies / Anne Frances Wysocki -- It's tagmemics and the Sex Pistols: current issues in individual and programmatic writing assessment / Kathleen Blake Yancey -- What If the Common Core Standards Actually Work?: For College writing, partly cloudy with a chance for rain / Doug Hesse -- The not-so-simple truth of English / Jessica Enoch and Scott Wible.
Summary:
"This essay collection takes stock of the historical, rhetorical, linguistic, digital, and evaluative aspects of the teaching of writing in higher education. An afterword offers perspectives on the future of academic and professional writing. Contributors are writing program directors, rhetoric and composition historians, linguists, and organizational leaders"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.