Rebecca Moore Howard
Office: 239A HB Crouse
Office hours: By appointment
Telephone: 443-1083
E-mail: rehoward@syr.edu
Home page http://wrt-howard.syr.edu

Schedule of Assignments and Activities
CCR 760
The Writing Program Administrator as Negotiator


Fall 2002
Time: Tuesdays 10-12:50
Place: 020 HB Crouse




August 27: Class meets this week in the computer cluster, 227 HBC

To prepare for class, read
  • Freund, Deborah A. "A Strategic Partnership for Innovative Research and Education." Address to the faculty of Syracuse University. 28 March 2001.
  • "A Strategic Partnership for Innovative Research and Education (A-SPIRE): An Academic Plan for Syracuse University." April 2001.
  • "Learning Outcomes for WRT 105: Academic Writing."
  • Office of Academic Affairs, Syracuse University. "The Academic Plan: A Progress Report." March 2002.
    • In class
  • Review syllabus
  • Discuss projects
  • Discuss cultural desires for sentence-level writing pedagogy
  • Review administrative documents
  • Write.
    • Guest: Margaret Himley.

    September 3:

    To prepare for class, read
  • Glau, Gregory R. "Hard Work and Hard Data: Using Statistics to Help Your Program." The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart C. Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 291-302.
  • Mirtz, Ruth M. "WPAs as Historians: Discovering a First-Year Writing Program by Researching Its Past." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 119-130.
  • Peeples, Tim. "'Seeing' the WPA With/Through Postmodern Mapping." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2002. 153-167.
  • Syllabus, Writing 105, Fall 2002.
  • Weiser, Irwin. "Local Research and Curriculum Development: Using Surveys to Learn About Writing Assignments in the Disciplines." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 95-106.

    • In class,
  • Choose and plan projects
  • Methods for reading pedagogical artifacts
  • Methods for conducting WPA research

    • September 10:

    To prepare for class, read
  • Ferganchick-Neufang, Julia. "Research (Im)Possibilities: Feminist Methods and WPA Inquiry." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 18-27.
  • Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Selling Out the Writing Program." Plenary address, Council of Writing Program Administrators, Park City, Utah, 11 July 2002.
  • Smit, David. "Curriculum Design for First-Year Writing Programs." The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators. Ed. Irene Ward and William J. Carpenter. New York: Addison Wesley, 2002. 185-206.
  • Yancey, Kathleen Blake, and Meg Morgan. "Reflective Essays, Curriculum, and the Scholarship of Administration: Notes Toward Administrative Scholarly Work." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 81-94.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Methods for conducting WPA research

    • September 17: First journal synthesis due

    To prepare for class, read
  • Gottschalk, Katherine K. "The Writing Program in the University." The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators. Ed. Irene Ward and William J. Carpenter. New York: Addison Wesley, 2002. 23-33.
  • Himley, Margaret. "Writing Programs and Pedagogies in a Globalized Landscape." Unpublished ms. 2002.
  • Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Philosophy of the Writing Program." 10 August 2001.
  • Howard, Rebecca Moore. "The Violence and Promise of the New Curriculum." 22 August 2002.
  • Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. "General Principles and the Spiral Curriculum." 1987.
  • Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. "The New 'Basics' of the Writing Studios." 1988.
  • Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. "Telling a Writing Program Its Own Story: A Tenth-Anniversary Speech." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 168-184.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Methods for reading administrative artifacts
  • Methods for conducting WPA research

    • October 1:

    To prepare for class, read
  • Brown, Stuart C. "Applying Ethics: A Decision-Making Heuristic for Writing Program Administrators." The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart C. Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.
  • Burnham, Christopher. "Reflection, Assessment, and Articulation: A Rhetoric of Writing Program Administration." The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart C. Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.
  • Peeples, Tim. "Program Administrators as/and Postmodern Planners: Frameworks for Making Tomorrow's Writing Space." The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2002. 116-128.
  • Shamoon, Linda K., Robert A. Schwegler, Rebecca Moore Howard, and Sandra Jamieson. "Reexamining the Theory-Practice Binary in the Work of Writing Program Administrators." The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2002. 67-78.
  • "The WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition." WPA: Writing Program Administration 23.1-2 (Fall/Winter 1999): 59-66. . Rpt. The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators. Ed. Irene Ward and William J. Carpenter. New York: Addison Wesley, 2002. 357-359.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Premises of conducting WPA research

    • October 8: First projects due

    To prepare for class, read
  • Bishop, Wendy. "Teaching Grammar for Writers in a Process Workshop Classroom." The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction. Ed. Susan Hunter and Ray Wallace. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. 176-188.
  • Brosnahan, Irene, and Janice Neuleib. "Teaching Grammar Affectively: Learning to Like Grammar." The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction. Ed. Susan Hunter and Ray Wallace. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. 204-212.
  • Daniel, Neil, and Christina Murphy. "Correctness or Clarity? Finding Answers in the Classroom and the Professional World." The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction. Ed. Susan Hunter and Ray Wallace. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. 225-242.
  • Freeman, David, and Yvonne Freeman. "Preparing Teachers to Teach about Language." Lessons to Share: On Teaching Grammar in Context. Ed. Constance Weaver. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1998. 279-292.
    • In class,
  • Choose and plan projects
  • Methods for sentence-level writing pedagogy

    • October 15:

    To prepare for class, read
  • Anson, Chris M. "Below the Surface: A True-to-Life Course in Editorial Practice." Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum. Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000. 121.
  • Blakesley, David. "Reconceptualizing Grammar as an Aspect of Rhetorical Invention." The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction. Ed. Susan Hunter and Ray Wallace. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. 191-203.
  • Hobson, Eric. "Taking Computer-Assisted Grammar Instruction to New Frontiers." The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction. Ed. Susan Hunter and Ray Wallace. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. 213-224.
  • Horner, Bruce. "'Students' Right,' English Only, and Re-imagining the Politics of Language." College English 63.6 (July 2001): 741-758.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Methods for sentence-level writing pedagogy

    • October 22: Second journal synthesis due

    To prepare for class, read
  • Braddock, Richard, Richard Lloyd-Jones, and Lowell Schoer. "Ineffectiveness of Instruction in Formal Grammar." Research in Written Composition. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1963. 37-38.
  • Hartwell, Patrick. "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar." College English 47 (February 1985): 105-127.
  • Conference on College Composition and Communication. Students' Right to Their Own Language. Special Issue. College Composition and Communication 25 (1974). Rpt. Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language. By Stephen Parks. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. 255-304.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Arguments against sentence-level writing pedagogy

    • October 29:

    To prepare for class, read
  • Crowley, Sharon. Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. U Pittsburgh P, 1998.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Arguments against sentence-level writing pedagogy

    • November 5:

    To prepare for class, read
  • Parks, Stephen. Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.
  • Sheils, Merrill. "Why Johnny Can't Write." Newsweek 92 (8 December 1975): 58-65.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Historical perspectives on sentence-level writing pedagogy

    • November 12:

    To prepare for class, read
  • Atherton, Catherine. "Children, Animals, Slaves and Grammar." Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical Learning. Ed. Yun Lee Too and Niall Livingstone. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998. 214-244.
  • Connors, Robert J. "Composition-Rhetoric, Grammar, and Mechanical Correctness." Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy. U Pittsburgh P, 1997. 112-170.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Historical perspectives on sentence-level writing pedagogy

    • November 19:

    To prepare for class, read
  • Council of Writing Program Administrators. "Evaluating the Intellectual Work of Writing Administration." WPA: Writing Program Administration 22.1-2 (Fall/Winter 1998): 85-104. Rpt. The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart C. Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 499-518.
  • Gunner, Jeanne. "Ideology, Theory, and the Genre of Writing Programs." The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2002. 7-18.
  • Hesse, Douglas D. "Politics and the WPA: Traveling Through and Past Realms of Experience." The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart C. Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 41-58.
  • Leverenz, Carrie. "Theorizing Ethical Issues in Writing Program Administration." The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2002. 103-115.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Scope and limitations of WPA work

    • November 26: (Yes, we will meet this day!) Third journal synthesis due

    To prepare for class, read
  • Gunner, Jeanne. "Heroic Bodies." Plenary address, Council of Writing Program Administrators, Charlotte NC, 14 July 2000.
  • Horner, Bruce. "Politics." Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique. Ithaca, NY: SUNY P, 2000. 73-103.
  • Mahala, Daniel, and Jody Swilky. "Remapping the Geography of Service in English." College English 59.6 (October 1997): 624-46.
  • Micciche, Laura R. "More than a Feeling: Disappointment and WPA Work." College English 64.4 (March 2002): 432-458.
    • In class,
  • Discuss projects
  • Political background to WPA work

    • December 3: Second projects due

    In class,
  • Discuss projects

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