Activist WPA, The : Changing Stories About Writing and Writers / / Linda Adler-Kassner.

• Author: Council of Writing Program Administrators (U.S.); Adler-Kassner, Linda.
• TeilnehmendeR: Council of Writing Program Administrators (U.S.)
• Place / Publishing House: Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2008.; ©2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this range of issues for the field of English composition in the age of the Spellings Commission and the No Child Left Behind Act. Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resur

Table of Contents

Working from a point of principle -- Looking backward -- Framing the public imagination -- Changing conversations about writing and writers: working through a process -- Taking action to change stories -- Working from my own points of principle : Tikkun Olam, prophetic pragmatism, and writing program administration.