Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction, with Some Rhetorical Terms
Rita Malenczyk
Part One: Initial Questions
1 What Are Students?
Kelly Ritter
2 What Is Placement?
Dan Royer and Roger Gilles
3 What Is Basic Writing?
Hannah Ashley
4 What Is First-Year Composition?
Doug Downs
5 What Are Threshold Concepts (and Why Are They Useful for Writing Programs)?
Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle
6 What Is ESL?
Gail Shuck
7 What Is Technology?
Jeffrey M. Gerding and Richard Johnson-Sheehan
Part 2: Complicating Questions
8 What Are Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines?
Martha A. Townsend
9 What Is General Education?
Lauren Fitzgerald
10 What Is Institutional Mission?
Elizabeth Vander Lei and Melody Pugh
11 What Is Pre-College Credit?
Kristine Hansen
12 What Is Transfer Articulation?
David E. Schwalm
13 What Is Transfer?
Elizabeth Wardle
14 What Is Assessment?
Susanmarie Harrington
15 What Is Retention?
Heidi Estrem, Pegeen Reichert Powell, and Dawn Shepherd
Part 3: Personal Questions
16 What Is a Writing Instructor?
Eileen E. Schell
17 What Is Faculty Development?
Carol Rutz and Stephen Wilhoit
18 What Is TA Education?
E. Shelley Reid
19 What Is a Union?
Seth Kahn
20 What Is the Writing Center?
Neal Lerner
Part Four: Helpful Questions
21 What Is a Writing Program History?
Shirley K Rose
22 What Are The Administration and The Budget? (And Why Are We Talking About Them Together?)
Irwin Weiser
23 What Is NSSE?
Charles Paine, Robert M. Gonyea, Chris M. Anson, and Paul Anderson
24 What Is the National Writing Project?
William P. Banks
25 What Is Community Literacy?
Eli Goldblatt
Part Five: Vexed Questions
26 What Is Class Size?
Gregory R. Glau
27 What Are Institutional Politics?
Tom Fox and Rita Malenczyk
28 What Is Academic Freedom?
Mary R. Boland
29 What Are Educational Standards?
Peggy O'Neill
30 What Is Policy?
Chris W. Gallagher
Part Six: Eternal Questions
31 What Is an Independent Writing Department/Program?
Barry Maid
32 What Is an English Department?
Melissa Ianetta
33 What Is The Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administration?
Joseph Janangelo
34 What Is WPA Research?
Christiane Donahue
35 What Is Principle?
Linda Adler-Kassner
36 What Is a Personal Life?
Douglas Hesse
Contributors
Index