Council of Writing Program Administrators

A full-time (1.0 FTE), nine-month, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor (depending on qualifications), beginning Fall 2009, for a Director of Writing, with desirable areas of focus or secondary specialties to include professional and technical writing, digital rhetoric, visual literacy, and/or new media. Ph.D. required at time of appointment. Significant teaching experience, publication record, and demonstrated scholarly innovation and commitment preferred. Preferred qualifications include a demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity.

Hi all --

I'm very pleased to join WPA and hope to connect with colleagues who face similar challenges.

I will again be training a group of GTA's, who are currently teaching FYC (first year comp), in how to teach business writing, and I would like to find a textbook that will help them.

For their FYC practicum we used Wilhoit's Allen & Bacon Handbook for Teaching Assistants, but I haven't found a comparable book for training GTA's to teach business writing.

I would love to hear what others have used.

Thanks,

Sara Jameson Oregon State University