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Composition/Writing Programs

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

YearCodeSession
2007A.1Institutional Forces as Shapers of Identity
2007A.17From the Margins to the Center: ESL Students Challenge
2007A.21The Proposed CCCC Statement on the Preparation of Teachers of Writing
2007A.4Creating Community and Representing Identities at a Large FYC Program: Using New Tools in New Ways
2007B.13Person, Place, or Thing: Identity, Physical Space, Defini-tion, and Boundaries in Studios
2007B.14Online Identities and the Evolving Roles of Writing Centers
2007B.16A Study of High Stakes Testing Practices: The City University of New York and Beyond
2007B.19Miles to Go: A Journey toward Developmental Writing and Freshman Composition Course Assessments
2007B.5Mouth Wide Shut: The Silencing and Voicing of Feminine
2007C.11The Role of Discourse Communities in the Composition
2007C.16TA’s as WPA’s Negotiating Student and Administrator
2007C.18Student Identity, Student Community: The First Essays
2007C.4(Star) Charting Our Program’s Identity: One Writing Program
2007D.10Rural Literacies from Appalachia to the Plains: Identities
2007D.13Beyond IMHO: Composing an Expert Identity through Infor-mation Literacy, Communications, and First-Year Writing
2007D.19The Subject(s) of Composition: Institutional, Disciplinary, and Pedagogical Identities
2007D.27Writing Centers as Sites of Service-Learning
2007D.5Changing Identities: Undergraduate Degree Programs and the Future of the Discipline
2007E.10How to Create Your Own Composition Program in a Few
2007E.15This, That, and “The Other”: The Hybrid Identities of Writ-ing Centers Situated in Learning Centers
2007E.16Generative Assessment: Three Models for Learning from our Programs
2007E.4Memoir and Prior Learning Narrative Writing in Programs
2007F.13From the Academy to the Community and Back Again, or, From the Paper to the Pavement
2007F.15What Did You Expect? Reports on Student and Faculty
2007F.19Chasing Identity: Cautionary-Encouragement Tales from an Independent Writing Program
2007G.11Only the lonely: Constructing Professional Compositionist
2007G.22Dear Co-Authors: Epistolary Revelations of Five Writing Center Directors
2007G.32Hitting the Long Ball: Striving for Process-Oriented Train-ing of Interdisciplinary Writing Teachers
2007G.4The Identity of the National Writing Project through Differ-ent Lenses
2007G.9Composing Ourselves: The Dialectics of Identity in a Transitional Writing Program
2007H.11Re-Assessing Writing Center Assumptions: Best Practices, Best Tutors, Best Texts
2007H.14Identities in Opposition: Can a Fragmented Writing Pro-gram Transform the System?
2007H.23WAC Undercover: How Writing Fellows Influence Faculty in the Sciences
2007H.7Tutors Without Borders: Advanced Composition Course for Pre-service Teachers
2007I.11Re-Membering Rhetoric: University of Oregon’s New Pro-gram in Writing, Speaking, and Critical Reasoning
2007I.16Administrative Identities and Working Conditions
2007I.2Negotiating Identities: A Good Deal for both Students and Institutions
2007I.22Constructing Program Identity at a Community College
2007I.5“Illegal” Crossings: Challenging the Academy’s Ambiva-lence Toward “Under Served” And Basic Writing Students
2007J.20Selling Ourselves: What Writing Centers Should Know about Marketing
2007J.27The Evolution of Learning Communities
2007J.8Shaping Institutional Identities: Collaborative Reflection
2007K.13Exploring Identities: Developing an Integrative Composition Capstone
2007K.16Learning Identities: The Writing Classroom as Site for Transformation and Self-Actualization
2007K.20On Getting What You Asked For: Consequences and Compromises of Institutionalizing a Mainstreaming Pilot Project
2007K.33Representing Identifies: Service-Learning to Re-present
2007K.9Yours, Mine and Ours: Raising Self-Awareness about Uses of Source Material
2007L.13Identifying, or Being Identified, as “At-Risk”: Ways Basic Writers and First-Graders Forge Academic
2007L.25Exploration of Self and Community in the Post-Katrina
2007L.33The WPA Writing Center Role and Creating Tutor Identities
2007L.34Innovations and Improvements in WPA
2007L.8WAC Student Identities: Disciplinary, Analytical-Empathetic, or Advocatory?
2007M.12Pedagogical Memory and the Transferability of Knowledge
2007M.28High Stakes Assessment of Faculty, Students, and Programs
2007M.29Where the Bloody Hell Are We? Subverting and Resisting
2007M.33Student Selves and Transformation in the Writing Classroom
2007N.16The Authority of Appropriation: Representing Identities through Re-Presenting Text
2007N.23Using Portfolios to Shape Students Identities in the Class-room and the University
2007N.30Usable Literacies: Rhetoric and Composition, (dis)Ability
2007O.20Creating Space for Silence: Interdisciplinary Contemplations on Identity
2007O.28Using Audio-Visual and Computer Technology in Tutor
2007O.29Assigning and Assessing Student Writing Across the Cur-riculum
2007P.14Presenting and Representing Multiple Identities in First-Year Writing Programs
2007P.19Creating Space: (Re)Locating Writing Centers and Tutors
2007P.20Linguistic and Cultural Frameworks in the Classroom and in the Writing Center
2007P.30Interpreting Second Language Writers’ Identities: Designations, Complications, and Implications
2008A.22Overcoming Institutional Constraints in WAC Assessment
2008A.23Technological Transformations: Distance Education and Writing Centers
2008A.242007 Survey of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Com-position
2008A.41Reflective Portfolios as Program Assessment
2008B.25Changing Realities: Adapting Writing Center Pedagogy to Fit the Needs of Second Language Writers
2008B.26Sustaining Learning: New Ways of Designing Curriculum
2008B.27Critical Issues in Writing Assessment
2008B.41Trading Realities: You Wear My Hat and I’ll Wear Yours— Developing a WID Program in a Technical College
2008C.23Rhetoricizing Online Writing Centers: A Roundtable Discussion on Using Language to Construct
2008C.24Departmental WID in International Perspective: Changing Realities for Writing Across the Curriculum
2008C.25Achieving Educational Equity in Writing Centers
2008C.42Establishing a Secondary Writing Center: A Collaborative
2008D.28Student Learning Outcomes as a Roadmap to Writing in the Disciplines
2008D.29Resisting Neoliberal Reality in the Writing Center: Durable, Democratic Networks in Long-Term Tutoring
2008D.30Coming to Agency through Directed Self-placement
2008D.31Speech Acts: Rap, Hip-Hop, and Critical Agency in the First-Year Writing Classroom
2008D.42Rhetorics and Realities of Change: Reflections on Theory
2008E.25Academic Gateways vs. Academic Gatekeepers: The Reali-ties of Academic Literacy Issues in the Two-Year College
2008E.26Two Assessments of Writing Assessments
2008E.27Celluloid WAC: Documenting the Realities of WAC through Film
2008E.40Writing Resistance: Assessment, Accountability and Subversion
2008F.19Three WPAs’ Perspectives on Changing the Material Pro-duction and Material Outcomes of First-Year Composition
2008F.20Assessment, Placement, and Institutional Change: Strategies for Creating New Writing Realities
2008F.21Writing Realities vs. Images that Conceal: The Visual Rhetoric of Self-Representation
2008F.34Changing Discourses: The Writing Center as Forum for Cross-disciplinary Collaboration
2008G.19How Strong Programs with National (Canadian) Identities
2008G.20The Multiple Realities of Tutor Training: Power, Identity, and Peer Tutoring
2008G.21Why Are We Reading This Stuff Anyway?: Using Keystone Essays to Integrate Reading and Writing
2008G.36Assessment of Tutoring Best Practices: Theoretical Possibilities and Pedagogical Realities
2008H.20Listening Rhetorically, Changing Realities: From Isolation into Dialogue
2008H.21Inside-out Assessment: Compositionists’ “Burden to Act”
2008H.22International Collaborations and Changing Realities
2008I.21Myspace.com, Hip-Hop Emcees, and Other Student Identi-ties in the Academic Classroom
2008I.22Reflection and Rhetorical Facility: Exploring the Realities of Assessing the Portfolio Preface
2008I.23Writing Center Realities: Reclaiming the (Con)Textual Product
2008J.21A Range of Realities: Addressing Composition II Students’ Needs
2008J.22Mind the Gap: Teacher and Tutor Accountability in the De-sign and Interpretation of WAC/WID Writing Assignments
2008J.23Changing Our Reality: Toward a Rhetoric of Undergraduate Degree Programs
2008J.24Words in Action: The Art of Poetry Slam and Social Justice
2008J.25Writing Realities and the Realities of Writing Instruction
2008K.22Taking Responsibility for Recreating, Renewing, and Sus-taining WAC and Writing Centers: Findings of the T YCA
2008K.24Reality Check: The Challenges and Rewards of Peer Men-toring and Program Assessment
2008L.17Inscribing Disciplinary Realities: WAC / WID Research and Pedagogy
2008L.18At Home and/in the World: Negotiating Global Perspectives in the Writing Classroom
2008M.14Facing Challenges for Writing Center Tutors and Graduate
2008M.15Digital Delivery, Learning Communities, and Service
2008M.16Blending Realities: Creating a Reality of Success for Students of Color
2008M.21TYCA National Interview Project: Tapping Exemplary Two-Year College Assessment Prac-tices to Rewrite Realities of Imposed Standards and Inadequate Program Support
2008N.15Conversations and Collaborations in Writing Centers
2008N.16Building and Sustaining an Independent Writing Major: Insights from a Decade of Departmental Experience
2008O.15Changing Realities of Assessment: Listening to Student Voices
2008O.16What If?: Writing Center Lore and Reality
2008O.17Learning from Peer Review: New Research
2008P.14Documenting the Future: The Role of Technical Communi-cators in Constructing Critical Technologies
2008P.15Rebuilding the Foundations of ENGL 101
2009A.10Thinking Big and Making It Happen: Stories, Strategies, and Lessons Learned from Several
2009A.15Enticing Rhetoric: The Mutual Attraction of Composition
2009A.18ALP: A New Model for Mainstreaming Basic Writers
2009A.20Questioning Timed Writing and Portfolio Assessment
2009A.29Upside Down, Inside Out: Making (Assessment ) Waves to Launch a WAC Enterprise from the Inside Out
2009A.3Beyond the CompRhet Doctorate: Writing History and Theory
2009A.37Assessment in the Context of the Learning Community
2009A.5Learning Communities in Context Collaboration and Across the Disciplines
2009A.9Assessment Initiatives for Writing Centers
2009B.18Beyond the WAC Workshop: The Possibilities and Pitfalls
2009B.19“Shit-plus,” “AWK,” “Frag,” and “Huh?”: An Empirical Look
2009C.15Riding Writing Assessment’s Fourth Wave: Examining the Efficacy of FYC as Writing Studies Pedagogy
2009C.27Visualizing the New Writing Center: Integrating Verbal and Visual Rhetorics
2009C.38The Good, the Bad, and the Online: Learning from One
2009C.7Next Generation OWLs: Customized Solutions and the Move toward Open-sourcing
2009D.21Building Bridges: Family Writing in the Composition
2009D.3Universal Design and Writing Programs: Constructing a Student-centered Universe(ity)
2009D.37Theorizing Theme Sections of Freshman Composition
2009D.38Misconception, Apprehension and Course Design in WAC
2009D.39Rippling throughout the Year: Four Views of the Stretch Model
2009D.8Calm Seas or Tidal Waves: The Role of Writing Fellows
2009F.10Making Waves, Managing Waves, and Becoming Active/ists: Recasting Campus Crisis into Written Reflection
2009F.16First-Year Composition and the Learning Community: A Framework for Student Engagement
2009F.21Writing Centers: Questions and Innovations
2009F.22A Perfect Storm: The Impact of Value-Added Assessment Requirements
2009F.38Making Waves with Writing Center Peer Tutors
2009G.27Sea Change, Transformation, and Adaptation: Pedagogy and Praxis Gleaned from the Community
2009G.30Information Literacies, Libraries and Learning
2009G.33Welcome to the Machine: Corporate Interests and Freshman Readers
2009G.6Educating the Third Wave of Writing Program/Center
2009G.8Real Service, Real Students: Reflecting on Service Learning at the Two-Year College
2009H.20The Basketball Diaries, or Making Waves in a Gorilla Suit
2009H.22Service and Engagement in Composition Studies
2009H.3New Modals in the Fight against Bullshit
2009H.32Changing Tides, Changing Curriculum: Instituting a Cross-disciplinary Mid-career Composition Course
2009I.11New Waves for Writing Centers
2009I.16Making Waves of Change: Creating a BA Degree in Writing and Rhetoric
2009I.17“Strangers in Strange Lands”: Composition Learning
2009I.30Mapping a New Academic Landscape: |Towards Rhetorical Pluralism in WAC/WID, Writing
2009I.37Shaping Campus and Community Ideas about Writing
2009J.1Riding a New Wave: Towards the Writing/Composition/Rhetoric Major and Minor
2009J.31Taking It to the Web: Digital Writing in Composition Classrooms
2009J.5Racism in Writing Assessments and the Construction of “Minority” Literacies
2009K.12Converging Currents in Learning Communities: Interdisciplinary Composition, Pedagogical Transparency, and Student-centeredness
2009K.2Writing Centers, CAC, and First-Year Seminar
2009K.28Developing and Training Peer Tutors
2009L.12Rhetorical Situations, Research Writing, and Genre: Cross-institutional Research on Curriculum Design in Two
2009L.21Alignity: The Next Wave in Writing in the Disciplines
2009L.22SIN(x), Where X Equals Identity: A Grounded Theory Investigation of “Development” in a Tutor Development Program
2009L.29Fifteen Years after the Writing Requirements Went Away: In the Wake of the New Abolitionist Wave
2009M.12Outcomes Assessment and the Intellectual Work of Composition: Engaging the Contradictions
2009M.14Authorizing Multiculturalism at the Center: Tales of Trials and Triumphs
2009M.16Tutor Development and Tutoring’s Influence
2009M.17Coming to Terms: Discovering our Rhetorical Values
2009M.25Getting a Job at a Two-Year College
2009M.29On Race, Privilege, and Agency
2009N.11Forget the Waves–We Aren’t Even in the Same Rowboat: Disrupting Grand/Master Writing Center Narratives
2009N.14Back to Basics: Refiguring Basic Writing Instruction
2009N.16Perceptions and Pedagogy: Remediation in the CSU
2009N.21Navigating Difference in Writing Center Tutoring Sessions
2009N.23The Opposite of Assessment Is?
2009N.28Creating Institutional Unity at the New “Community”
2009O.10Collaborative Learning and Peer Tutor Training: Breaking Waves and Confused Seas
2009O.4Making Waves on a Rising Tide: Three Writing Centers Churn Things Up
2009P.1Making Waves in Graduate School: Challenging “Business
2009P.12The Double Helix: WPA Theory and Practice in Four Local Contexts
2009P.16Full Speed Ahead: Navigating Composition’s Rough Waters
2009P.19WAC’s a Beach
2009P.6Terra Incognita: Methods and Strategies for Creating a Global Writing Curriculm
2010A.12Where Are They Now?: A Longitudinal Look at the Writing
2010A.13Bringing WAC Back: From Suspended Animation to Revitalization
2010A.18Rethinking Racism in Writing Assessments: A Conversation about Local Issues, Sites, and Possibilities
2010A.20First-Year Remix: Contexts and Curriculum
2010A.23(Re)mixing Assessment and Articulation: One Program’s Experience with Assessing Writing as a Dynamically Articulated Process
2010A.36Universal Requirement (New Millennium Remix)
2010B.20Audience, Authority, and Ownership: Constructing the “Intimate Other” in Introductory Composition
2010B.32Updating an Old Standard: “Teaching College Writing” Goes Multi-Modal
2010B.5From Awareness to Action: Making a First-Year Writing Program ESL Friendly
2010C.11After “Shit-plus” in One Writing Program: Empirical Inquiries into Student Reflective Letters, Teachers’ Markings on Latino/a Writing, and the Construction of Race in Teacher Commentary
2010C.12Reflection in Context: Encouraging and Valuing the Stu-dent’s Voice in Assessment
2010C.18What’s Love Got to Do with It?: The Multifaceted Nature of Emotions and Social Responsibility in Writing Assessment
2010C.26The End(s) of Basic Writing: Remixing Access to Higher
2010C.38Conflict and Dissent in Collaborative Learning
2010C.40FYC Assessment and Retention Remixed: Inviting Students into Education through Writing
2010C.41Student Anthologies Remixed: Using Student Writing in Faculty Development
2010C.8Overlapping Boundaries for Students, Teachers, and Tutors
2010D.22Remixing Campus Writing Resources for Faculty at an HBCU
2010D.23Do We Look Like White Women 2 U!?: Remixing the Feminization of the WPA
2010D.26Getting a Job in a Two-Year College
2010E.10Global Literacies in Context: Remixing the Geography of First-Year Writing Programs in America
2010E.14Access and Excellence: Creating New Opportunities for At-Risk Students’ Success in Reading and Writing
2010E.24Questioning Traditional Connections between High School
2010E.28Rethinking Writing Center Practices with Second-Language
2010F.14Getting WAC to Work: Remixing Roles and Expectations of Graduate Writing
2010F.22Writing Studies Remixed: Rethinking What We Do and How We Do It
2010F.33Remixing Writing Programs for a Digital World
2010F.41“Go to the Writing Center”: Rethinking Requirements and Resistance
2010G.19Mixing It Up: A First Year Experience in the Contact Zone
2010G.21Starting from Scratch: How We Invent Writing Programs
2010G.31Remaking General Education Assessment, Rejecting
2010G.36Rethink, Remix, Renew: Composition Pedagogy in a Digital Realm
2010G.42An Ever Widening Circle: Feedback to Student Writing
2010H.21Research on Learning Transfer, and How We Use That
2010H.22The Zen of Writing Assessment: Practices On and Off the Cushion (at the University of X)
2010H.43Language, Race, and Ethnicity: Challenging Perceptions
2010H.9Remixing Scholarship: Sharing Undergraduate Research
2010I.1First-Year Honors Composition (FYHC): A Quantitative and Case Study
2010I.23First-Year Seminar versus First-Year English: Rethinking
2010I.31Disturbing and Developing the Council of Writing Program
2010I.41First-Year Seminars as a Remix of the Introductory Writing
2010I.42Supporting Fellow Faculty: Sharing Knowledge and Building Community
2010J.1Re-Mixing Historical Knowledge as the Generative
2010J.11Hard Times: Required Remixing in the New Economy
2010J.12“Assume the Power to Do What You Know”: Rethinking
2010J.2Remixing the High School to College Transition for Student Writers: A Pilot Partnership
2010J.43Learning from Other Programs and Disciplines
2010K.1Revisiting and Revising: Using Data to Evaluate and Improve a Developmental Writing Program
2010K.14Rubrics Redux
2010K.2Re-Thinking Placement into First-Year Writing Courses: Developing an Evidence-Based Statewide Model
2010K.25The New Traditional Student: Re-mixing Demographics, Curriculum, and Theory
2010K.40The Writing Center as a Contact Zone
2010K.9Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors: A Roundtable Discussion
2010L.19Re-inventing Writing Program Administration in a Time of Economic Calamity
2010L.2Building Community through Writing: Place-Based Pedagogy in a Developmental Writing Program
2010L.21Between a WAC and a Hard Place: Course Design, Faculty Development, and Assessment
2010L.25Course Redesign as Remix: One Program’s Adventures
2010L.35Questioning Assessment Practice
2010L.9Reinvigorating Writing Center Research: Toward a New Millennial Agenda
2010M.24Back to the Future: Revising Classical Rhetoric’s Current Place in Composition
2010M.27The Sum of Its Parts: Using Research to Renew Our
2010M.28Course Redesign as Remix: One Program’s Adventures
2010M.29Realizing the Potential of Writing Studies
2010M.30Engaging the Post-colonial: Teaching “Standard” Writing
2010M.38Revisiting Ethics in the Writing Center
2010N.18Re-Representing the Writing Center: Ethics, Social Impact, and Good Intentions
2010N.21TYCA Research Initiative Rethinking to Renew: Learning Communities in Two-Year Colleges
2010N.6Documentary Video: Mixing Research and Dissemination
2010N.8Serving Those Who Serve: Deploying the Composition Classroom
2010N.9Taking the Stage: Reconsidering Peer, Professional, and Faculty Tutor Identities in the Writing Center
2010O.13Writing Center Tutors’ Roles Remixed
2010O.14Curriculum Design in Multiple Contexts
2010O.21“Diving Into the Wreck(age)”: Rethinking Writing Program Coherence
2010O.9What Are We Teaching?
2010P.11Reconsidering Research on Writing Fellows/Mentors in the Classroom
2010P.16First–Year Writing Remix
2010P.25How We Build Writing Programs
2010P.26How Do Students Conduct Research?
2010P.8Rethinking, Revising, and Renewing a Writing Program by Celebrating Student Writing
2010P.9The State of Writing Studies: How Writing Is Done in U.S. Colleges and Universities