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Composition Programs

199 sessions. A heading name lists the sessions printed under it that year; a family name lists every session in the family.

YearCodeSession
2004A.19Writing Programs As Philosophical Journeys: From Lucretian Argument To Existential Consciousness
2004A.20Bringing Composition Home: Multiple Constituencies, Multiple Publics
2004B.18A Course In Orientation: Place-Based Composition at a Big State School
2004B.19Making a Difference: Three Ways Service Learning Can Serve the Composition Classroom
2004B.20Attaining Academic Citizenship: Composition for First-Generation Students
2004B.21Making Composition Matter through the WPA Outcomes Statement: The OS as Transformative Policy
2004C.1Speaking and Writing/Communication and Composition
2004C.2Communities, Place, and “Difference”: Advocacy And Service Learning
2004C.3Picking up the Pieces: Doing WAC in the Ruins of a Formal WAC Program
2004C.4Creating Student Citizens: Service Learning and Composition
2004C.5Making Assessment Matter: Revising Curricula, Pedagogies, Programs
2004C.6Making Writing Matter Across the Curriculum: Editing Double Negatives
2004D.1Representations of Writing Across the Curriculum: Foreshadowing a New Era in Composition Instruction
2004D.3How Online Tutoring Matters: Benefits of Technology for Students and Tutors
2004D.4Making Composition Matter: Authentic Assessment of Writing Across A Statewide System Of Higher Education
2004D.5Making Composition Matter Again: Re-Inventing Writing Programs
2004E.11Does First-Year Composition Matter on the Eve of Graduation?
2004E.12Whatever Happened to the Fourth C?: FYC, Speech Comm, And Programmatic Change
2004E.13Ways of Knowing: Writing-Center Outcomes as Politics, Pedagogy, and Theory
2004E.14How Electronic Assessment Programs Construct “Composition”
2004F.24Undergraduate Composition Matters
2004F.25Students as Citizens: Developing and Assessing Models for Civic Engagement and College Writing
2004F.31Multiple Assessments: Portfolios, Writing Studios, and Primary Traits Rubrics
2004FSI.23TYCA Talks
2004FSI.6Meeting of the National Network of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs
2004G.13The New Scene of Writing: Designing an Oral, Visual, and Textual Curriculum
2004G.23Re-Seeing, Navigating, And Collaborating: Writing Centers Matter
2004G.24A Cornerstone That Matters: Composition and Peer Tutoring
2004G.25Making Technology Matter in Writing Centers
2004G.5Working Across the Curriculum: New Approaches and Communications
2004H.1Composing a Community: The History Of WAC In Higher Education
2004H.3Passing the Buck: Attitudes, Assumptions, and Policies Impeding WAC Efforts in Universities, Colleges, and High Schools
2004H.4Community-Based Writing Collaborations That Matter: Critical Moments On and Off the Page
2004H.5Writing Across The Curriculum In First-Year Composition: The Matter Of The First-Year Seminar
2004I.17Time Has Come Today: Examining Learning-Center Practices
2004I.19Speak Up and Talk Back!: A Panel of College Students and Community Partners Reflect upon Their Written Collaboration
2004I.20Literacy Matters: In the Hollers, in the Bush, and Across The Great Divide
2004I.21Inventing Tradition: Revitalizing Institutional and Programmatic Histories
2004I.22Making Composition Matter: Literacy, Privacy, and Community
2004J.13Dancing in the Streets: Alternative Approaches to Composition Outside the Classroom
2004J.14Students Becoming Citizens: How Composition Matters in Community Connections
2004J.22Because Composition Matters: Preparing Graduate Students in Rhetoric and Composition
2004J.23More Than Basic Skills: Rhetorical Designs For Reading And Writing Pedagogy
2004K.30Theoretically Centered?: Theorizing the Writing Center
2004K.31Transferring Composition Knowledge Across Disciplines: Making Writing Instruction Matter
2004K.32Is the Writing Classroom a “Level Playing Field?” Universal Design, Alternative Assistance Programs, and Metaphors
2004L.16Assessment Matters: College Writing Assessments in and beyond the Writing Program
2004L.17Whose Words Where? The Promises and Perils of Community Literacy Projects and Publications
2004L.18History, Heresy, and Hip-Hop
2004L.19Transforming Barriers, Creating Possibilities, Advancing What Matters
2004L.33Composition Curriculum: Designing, Implementing, and Sustaining What Matters
2004M.1What Makes WAC Work: Reflections On Writing Across The Curriculum
2004M.12(Re)Imagined Worlds: Global Landscapes and the Adult Learner
2004M.18Making Composition Matter to Students and Institutions: The Role Of First-Year Writing In Creating Academic Citizens
2004M.19From Margin to Center: Gaining Citizenship in Academia through (and for) Writing-Center Studies
2004M.20Matters of Academic Discourse: Forging Change in Familiar Spaces
2004N.10Writing-Center Intersections with ESL Writing, Writers, and Programs
2004N.13Occasions of Urgency: And Permission to Write as if It Matters
2004N.14South Texas Matters: Re-Envisioning Ourselves as Writers, Teachers, and Community Citizens
2004N.7Learning Communities, Writing Centers, and Real-World Composition
2004N.8Community Matters: Composing Lives within the City, School, and Environment
2004N.9Roundtable Discussion: Beyond Our Walls: Writing Centers Working Across Disciplines
2004O.10Making the First Year Matter: Content Connections, Power(Lessness), and Service Learning
2004O.27WAC-Ed Out: Documenting What Works and Why
2004O.28Assessing Writing Centers: From Pacman to Silence Sites
2004O.9Returning Students and the Matter of Composition
2004SW.6Best Assessment Practices in a Time of Budget Cuts
2004SW.9Problematizing Portfolios: Assessing the Assessment
2004TSI.12Teaching Adult Student Writers in Diverse Contexts
2004TSI.18Directed Self-Placement and the Marginalized Student: Future Composition Matters
2004TSI.3Spoken Word: Performing Writing in the Center
2005A.6Gateways to Success for Basic Writers: Alternatives to Basic Courses at the Small College
2005A.7Opening Gates between Disciplines: Composition, Communications, and Information
2005A.8Communities of Practice: An Inter-Institutional Model for Writing Assessment
2005A.9Providing Access in the Writing Center: Specialized Tutor Training and Software
2005B.11Move Over—We’ll Drive: Through the Golden (Flood) Gate of Assessment
2005B.12Designing Tutor Education to Address Issues of Access
2005B.14Philosophies, Surveys, and Curriculum Workshops for WAC
2005C.10How Do We Know when Writing Courses Have
2005C.11Portfolio Assessment and Beyond: Crossroads, Possibilities and Limitations for the Next Generation of Writing Assessment
2005C.12Adapting Curricula to Promote Student and Instructor
2005C.13‘Barbarians at the Gates’: Negotiating Student Placement
2005C.14What Research Tells Us About Writing Center Directors `
2005D.11Pedagogy and Writing Assessment in California Universities: The Social Construction of a Great Divide
2005D.12Concerning Diversity: The Role of the ESL Individual in the Writing Center
2005D.13Taking Research/Writing beyond the Campus: Community, Service, Ethnography
2005D.14Case Study: Creating a Collaboratively Written Custom Textbook for First-Year Writing Courses
2005D.15Writing Center Tutor Training: Observing Facial Expressions, Understanding Diversity, Maintaining
2005E.11Academic Communities for Excellence: Ensuring Success for Under-prepared Students
2005E.12Serving “Generation 1.5” Immigrant ESL Students in College Composition Programs
2005E.13Cognitive Access to Student Success: Motivating the Transfer of Composition Knowledge
2005E.14Bridging the Writing Center to Disability Service Providers: Opening the Gates to Academic Access at the University of Hartford
2005E.15How Students Develop as Writers: New Roles for Success
2005E.16Bridging Contexts and Disciplines: ‘Engineering’ an Engineering School’s Writing Manual
2005F.14Portfolio Assessment at an Open Admission Institution: Bridge or Barrier to Success? (TYCA Strand)
2005F.15With the Rebirth of WAC, Who Teaches Writing?: A Survey and Three Case Studies
2005F.16History and Methods of Writing Assessment
2005F.17The Power of Unexpected Series: Linking Courses, Composition Theories, and Institutions to Create
2005FSIG.14National Network of Writing-across-the-Curriculum Programs
2005FSIG.8TYCA Talks
2005G.11Student Access, Student Choice, Student Success in First-Year Composition: A History, Description, and Evaluation of Guided Self-Placement at The University
2005G.12In Pursuit of Portfolios
2005G.13(Re)Placing Students’ Writing: Assessing our Gates of Access
2005G.9It’s All About Our Students’ Success: Coming Full Circle with FYW Assessment
2005H.16Figuring It Out as We Go: Finding a Place for the Writing
2005H.17Walking the City: Rhetorically Situated Learning and the Syntax of Service
2005H.18Writing Opportunity: Administrative, Historical, and Pedagogical Aspects of Teaching EOP Students
2005H.19Enacting Social Justice: Discursive Spaces where Disabilities are Named, Accommodations Constructed, and Alliances Forged
2005I.15Talking in the Center/Teaching in the Classroom
2005I.16Questioning What We Do: Assessing the Effectiveness of Teacher-Researcher
2005I.17Arts of Language: Ways to Use and Understand
2005I.18Giving Voice to African American Males and to the Elderly
2005I.19Seeing Writing Programs as Sites of Inquiry
2005J.14The Writing Center as Space
2005J.15Rhetoric as Nonviolent Action: Designs for the Writing Program
2005J.16Familiar Problems in New Contexts: Sharing and Maintaining Literacy, Access, and Community
2005K.14Defining Success in WAC: Assessing a WI Course
2005K.15Opening the Doors: Building a Mobile Writing Center for an Open-access Online University
2005K.16“‘I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours’”: How Integrating Curriculum Promotes Student Success
2005K.17Putting a Face on AIDS in Africa: Creating a Rhetoric of Hope
2005K.18Arguing the End of Composition Studies
2005L.11ESL and Second Language Students: Addressing Plagiarism, Using Tutoring Strategies, and Researching in the Writing Center
2005L.12Faceless, Placeless Success: Questioning the Move toward Nationally Normed
2005L.13Service Learning Problematized
2005L.26New CCCC Position Paper on Writing Assessment
2005L.27Access in the New University: Building Coalitions in a Writing Program
2005M.13Public Writing at the Point of Need: A Senior-level General Education Composition Course
2005M.14Technology’s Role in Student Success: What Happens
2005M.15Let’s Hear it from Them: First-Generation and Under-represented Students Discuss Factors of Their Succes
2005M.16Diversity in Kansas?: The Challenges of Implementing a Diversity/Writing
2005N.10Redefining Success via/and Affirming the Discipline: FYC as Intro to Writing Studies
2005N.8Forging a Community/University Literacy Center: Whose Interests? Whose Needs?
2005N.9Teachers against the Ropes: Wrestling the New Media Nerve Hold
2005O.10Assessing Success: A Holistic Approach to Writing
2005O.7Ensuring Student Success: A Roundtable on Instructional Innovations at an HBCU in Transition
2005O.8Making Access Real: Learning Communities, Basic
2005O.9Calls to Work, Occupational Inquiry, and Discipline-specific Writing in the New Vocationalism
2005TSIG.12High School/College Articulation
2005TSIG.20Teaching Adult Writers in Diverse Contexts
2005TSIG.22Helping Students through the Gates: College and University Writing Assessment in the 21st Century
2006A.10The Individual, The Institution, and The Community: Three Sites for Service-Learning
2006A.11How to Succeed in Literacy: Conventions and Contexts
2006A.12Tutor Contributions to Writing Centers
2006A.13Preparing Dick and Jane: Success From K through College
2006A.14Composing Ourselves for the Academic Community
2006A.15The Content of Comp: Assessing FYC Outcomes, Metacognition and Reflective Practice with a Writing Skills Inventory
2006B.10Compromises and Stalemates: Is Composition Centered in Learning Communities?
2006B.11Writing Program Administration Database-Style: Knowledge Management and the End of Traditional
2006B.12Location, Location, Location: Tales of Writing Center Space
2006B.43Creating Learning Community across the Curriculum — A Two-Year College Portrait
2006B.9Marginalized Voices Building Community and Coalitions: Service Learning with Non-Traditional Students
2006C.10Preparing for Our Careers—Pre-Service Courses and Mentorship
2006C.11Forging Alliances: Community Activism and Social
2006C.12Writing Campus Culture
2006C.13Frames that Define Us: Therapy, Rhetoric, and Diversity
2006C.9Post Process Theory and Classical Rhetoric: Looking Forward, Looking Backward
2006D.10Renegotiating Program-wide Portfolio Assessment: Building Community through Assessment
2006D.11Convergence and Change: Re-Crafting a Composition Program from Two Semesters to One
2006D.12Going Public with Writing: The Writing Center, the Coffee House, the Web
2006D.13Automated Essay Grading in the Sociology Classroom: Finding Common Ground
2006D.14Writing at the Center
2006D.44Dual-Enrollment and Its Impact on Composition Programs
2006E.10Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action: Reports from the Field
2006E.11Preparing New Graduate Teaching Assistants and Tutors: Critical Pedagogy, Second Language Writing, and Rhetorical Tutoring
2006E.12Allying against Institutional Racism: Teaching about Whiteness in Predominantly White Institutions
2006E.13Writing History: Finding Place and Cyberspace in an Undergraduate
2006E.14Beyond the Writing Program Culture: Making “My” Community “Our” Community
2006F.10An Assessment of Our Own: Experiences of Using a National Online Essay Evaluation to Create Institution-Specific Assessments
2006F.11WAC in the New Millennium: A Campus-Wide Survey of Attitudes and Practices
2006F.8Vertical Writing: Going through the Institutional Woodchipper in Fargo
2006F.9Keeping It Local: How Not To Let (Ass)essment Kick Us in the Behind
2006G.10Starting with the Reader, Building from the Center: Exploring a New Role for the Reader and Writer in the Writing Center and Writing Program
2006G.11Barbarians at the Gate: Four Non-English Professors
2006G.12Building a Culture of Assessment: “Dynamic Criteria
2006G.13What Happens in Comp Stays in Comp? Linguistic
2006G.14Changing Identity: De-Centering the Writing Center
2006H.10Lost (and Found) in Translation: Writing Centers as Sites
2006H.11Where History, Theory, and Context Converge: What WPAs
2006H.8Chatting in the Center: An Investigation of the Current Uses and Potential of Synchronous Chat in the Writing Center
2006H.9Using Assessment Data to Strengthen Links between Information Literacy and Writing in First Year History
2006I.10Collaboration, Community, and Continuity: Building Campus Culture through Learning Communities
2006I.11Coalition of the Willing?
2006I.12Retheorizing Writing Center Practice: What Other Disciplines Can Teach Us about Conferencing
2006I.8The Lehigh University First Year Writing Program: Conceived in Cultural Studies; Shaped by Personal
2006I.9Common Ground: Creating Successful Professional/ Student Communities with Part-time Faculty
2006J.10Building Assessment Communities: Using Empirically Derived Findings to Promote a Constructivist Assessment Agenda
2006J.11What’s Queer about Writing Program Administration?
2006J.12Creating Community with the Online Writing Studio
2006J.8The Gatekeeper No More: Using the Composition Curriculum to Foster Critical
2006J.9CONNECT: Building Coalitions for Common Outcomes in First Year English at Five Colleges
2006K.10Second Language Writing Curriculum Design: A Case Study
2006K.11Come Back, 4th ‘C’! : Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication across the Curriculum
2006K.7Grade Expectations: A Report on Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
2006K.8Curricular Coalitions: Building Intellectual Community
2006K.9Normed and Criterion-Referenced: A Collaborative Approach to Assessing Writing
2006L.9Building Bridges between Communities and Curricula: Service Learning Initiatives in Professional Writing
2006M.7Building a Community of Trust: Encouraging Academic Integrity
2006M.8What’s the Value of the Service in Service Learning?
2006M.9Building Community through Writing Program