WPA 2009 Conference Sessions

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Session Title Presenters
A1 Sustainable Assessment Processes: Cultivating a Culture and Scholarship of Program Evaluation

Jane Detweiler, Crystal Broch Colombini, Zachary Bankston, David Marquard, Sandra Weinstein Bever

A2 Building Faculty Morale in “Hard Times”

Fredel M. Wiant

A2 Responding to Standardized Testing on Campus

Elliott Gruner

A2 Discerning the Best Assessment Course When There’s Already a Pig in the Poke

Debra Frank Dew

A3 Mis/Understanding Information Literacy: WPAs, Librarians, and the General Education Curriculum

Erica Frisicaro-Pawlowski, Margaret Artman, Robert Monge

A4 When Anxiety Disorders Come to Class: Suggestions for Dealing with this Dilemma

Kathleen Hunzer

A4 An alternative to the “pound of flesh” FYW staffing metric

Scott Warnock

A4 When Instructors Go Bad, Who Is Accountable for What, and What Are the Costs?

Patrick Shaw

A5 WAC in One Afternoon: Rethinking Writing at a Small College in Transition

Jim Webber, Mike Garcia, Jeff Ringer

B1 Making the Most of the WPA Website

Charlie Lowe

B2 Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been? Writing Centers as Ideal Training Grounds for Future WPAs

Julia Bleakney, Tom Friedrich, Kirsten Jamsen, Susan Meyers

B3 Close Focus on Assessment Process: A Roundtable on Rubric Development and Reader Training

Jane Detweiler, Crystal Colombini, Maura Grady, David Marquard, Zach Bankston

B4 Using WPA Documents to Guide Institutional Policy Statements

Joe Janangelo, Peggy O'Neill, Gina Meyers, KJ Peters

B5 “The Art of Discernment: Confessions of a Junior WPA”

Darci Thoune

B5 A WPA’s Charge: Faculty Development by Design and by Stealth
B7 Scholarly Publishing in Challenging Times: Advice from Editors

Susan McLeod, Margot Soven, Deirdre Pettipiece, & Kathleen Blake Yancey (respondent)

B8 Writing-About-Writing FYC Courses From Three Perspectives: Director, Instructor/Coordinator, and Adjunct

Elizabeth Wardle, Deborah Weaver, Adele Richardson

C1 Moving Forward: Foregrounding “Writing”

Lorelei Blackburn, Dominic DelliCarpini, Darsie Bowden

C2 Mapping Program Genre-Systems for Institutional Change

Dylan Dryer; Pat Burnes

C3 Assistant Director Positions: Potentials and Pitfalls

Gregory Glau, Nicholas Behm

C4 WPA Perspectives on Instructor Comments: A Roundtable on Response

Joel Wingard, Scott Warnock, Jeanne Marie Rose, John Eliason

C5 Discerning Roles and Responsibilities: Graduate WPAs and a Showcase of Student Writing

Danielle Cordaro, Kristine Johnson, Tom Sura, Jaclyn Wells

C7 Second Generation Mainstreaming for Basic Writers: The Accelerated Learning Project (ALP)

Stephanie Briggs, Laurie Berglie, and Peter Adams

C8 A National Study of Writing’s Contributions to Learning in College: Major Findings and Practical Implications for All Writing Pr

Paul Anderson, Chris Anson, & Chuck Paine

C9 Washington State University Writing Program’s evolutionary step: The move from homegrown OWL to the NW eTutoring.org consortium

Patrick Johnson