Promotion & Documenting Writing Program Administration

CCCC's "Scholarship in Composition: Guidelines for Faculty, Deans, and Department Chairs"
            www.ncte.org/cccc/positions/scholarship_in_comp.shtml

CCCC's "Promotion and Tenure Guidelines for Work with Technology"
             www.ncte.org/cccc/positions/promotion_tenure.shtml

MLA's "Guidelines for Evaluating Work with Digital Media in the Modern Languages"
            http://www.mla.org/guidelines_evaluation_digital

WPA's "Evaluating the Intellectual Work of Writing Administration"
            www.ilstu.edu/~ddhesse/wpa/positions/intellectualwork.html

CCCC's "Position Statement on the Preparation and Professional Development of Teachers of Writing"
            http://www.ncte.org/groups/cccc/positions/107683.htm
 

Selected Readings for Curriculum Conversations

The following set of readings is divided into pairs of essays that address related topics.  They don't have to be read in the order presented, though I do think they offer a good progression of thinking about academic literacy, its practices, its critics, and its history.

           George Hillocks Jr.,  "The Focus on Form vs. Content in Teaching Writing"

        Mark Wiley, "The Popularity of Formulaic Writing (And Why We Need to Resist)"

        D.R. Ransdell and Greg Glau, "Articulation and Student Voices: Eliminating the perception that 'High school English doesn't teach you nothing'"

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Mike Rose, "Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language"

David Bartholomae, "Inventing the University"

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Bob Connors, "Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse"

Barbara Little Liu, "More Than the Latest Buzzword for Modes"

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David Bartholomae & Anthony Petrosky, from Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts

Kathleen McCormick, "Reading to Write: The Cultural Imperatives Underlying Cognitive Acts"

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Nancy Sommers, "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers"

Nicolas Coles, "Empowering Revision"

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Linda Blanton, "Discourse, Artifacts, and the Ozarks: Understanding Academic Literacy"

Vivian Zamel, "Questioning Academic Discourse"

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Kristin Dombeck and Scott Herndon, from Critical Passages: Teaching the Transition to College Composition

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Martin Nystrand et al., "Where Did Composition Studies Come From?"  (a good background reading)