ISBN:
9780874216172
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087421520X
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9781283275231
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1283275236
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9780874215205
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0874216176
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 222 pages)
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
Parallel Title:
Print version Discord and direction
Keywords:
English language Rhetoric
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Study and teaching
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Report writing Study and teaching (Higher)
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Postmodernism and higher education
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Writing centers Administration
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English language
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Report writing
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Postmodernism and higher education
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Writing centers
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Rhetoric
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REFERENCE ; Writing Skills
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Composition & Creative Writing
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EDUCATION ; Higher
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English language ; Rhetoric ; Study and teaching
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Postmodernism and higher education
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Report writing ; Study and teaching (Higher)
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Writing centers ; Administration
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The argument of this collection is that the cultural and intellectual legacies of postmodernism impinge, significantly and daily, on the practice of the Writing Program Administrator. WPAs work in spaces where they must assume responsibility for a multifaceted program, a diverse curriculum, instructors with varying pedagogies and technological expertise-and where they must position their program in relation to a university with its own conflicted mission, and a state with its unpredictable views of accountability and assessment. The collection further argues that postmodernism offers a useful lens through which to understand the work of WPAs and to examine the discordant cultural and institutional issues that shape their work. Each chapter tackles a problem local to its author's writing program or experience as a WPA, and each responds to existing discord in creative ways that move toward rebuilding and redirection. It is a given that accepting the role of WPA will land you squarely in the bind between modernism and postmodernism: while composition studies as a field arguably still reflects a modernist ethos, the WPA must grapple daily with postmodern habits of thought and ways of being. The effort to live in this role may or may not mean that a WPA will adopt a postmodern stance; it does mean, however, that being a WPA requires dealing with the postmodern
Abstract:
The argument of this collection is that the cultural and intellectual legacies of postmodernism impinge, significantly and daily, on the practice of the Writing Program Administrator. WPAs work in spaces where they must assume responsibility for a multifaceted program, a diverse curriculum, instructors with varying pedagogies and technological expertise-and where they must position their program in relation to a university with its own conflicted mission, and a state with its unpredictable views of accountability and assessment. The collection further argues that postmodernism offers a useful lens through which to understand the work of WPAs and to examine the discordant cultural and institutional issues that shape their work. Each chapter tackles a problem local to its author's writing program or experience as a WPA, and each responds to existing discord in creative ways that move toward rebuilding and redirection. It is a given that accepting the role of WPA will land you squarely in the bind between modernism and postmodernism: while composition studies as a field arguably still reflects a modernist ethos, the WPA must grapple daily with postmodern habits of thought and ways of being. The effort to live in this role may or may not mean that a WPA will adopt a postmodern stance; it does mean, however, that being a WPA requires dealing with the postmodern
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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