Wpa: Writing Program Administration 35.2 (Spring 2012)

Publisher Marketing: WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within programmatic contexts advocacy and institutional critique and change; writing programs and their extra-institutional relationships with writing's publics; technology and the delivery of writing instruction within programmatic contexts; wpa and writing program histories and contexts; WAC / ECAC / WID and their intersections with writing programs; the theory and philosophy of writing program administration issues of professional advancement and wpa work; and projects that enhance wpa work with diverse stakeholders. CONTENTS OF WPA 35.2: From the Editors "Pausing in the Whirlwind: A Campus Place-Based Curriculum in a Multimodal Foundation Communication Course" by Barbara J. Blakely and Susan B. Pagnac "Cultivating Sensibility in Writing Program Administration" by Matthew Heard "Writing Placement That Supports Teaching and Learning" by Emily Isaacs and Catherine Keohane "Just Comp" by Don J. Kraemer "Professional Identity in a Contingent-Labor Profession: Expertise, Autonomy, Community in Composition Teaching" by Ann M. Penrose "Uncommon Conversations: How Nearly Three Decades of Paying Attention Allows One WAC/WID Program to Thrive" by Martha A. Townsend, Martha D. Patton, and Jo Ann Vogt "On the Crossroads and at the Heart: A Conversation with the 2012 WPA Summer Conference Local Host about the Place of the Writing Program at the University of New Mexico" by Shirley K Rose and Chuck Paine WPA SYMPOSIUM RESPONSE: "Composition, Commonplaces, and Who Cares?" by Melissa Ianetta "Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, and Posers; or, the I's Have It" by Rita Malenczyk "Different Paths to the Same Goal: A Response to Barbara Cambridge" by Randall McClure and Dayna V. Goldstein "Review Essay: Enhancing Learning and Thinking in Higher Education" by Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Tiffany Bourelle, and Duane Roen Contributors Announcements