Council of Writing Program Administrators

WPA: Writing Program Administration
Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators

Editorial Team (2009):

• Alice Horning
• Debra Dew and Glenn Blalock, Associate Editors
• Greg Giberson, Lori Ostergaard, and Jim Nugent, Assistant Editors
• Ed White, Book Review Editor
• Donna Scheidt, Advertising Manager

Send submissions and queries to journal@wpacouncil.org

Send Book Review queries to Ed White: emwhite@u.arizona.edu

Author Guidelines

WPA: Writing Program Administration publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include the following:

• 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

The previous list is meant to be suggestive, not exhaustive, but contributions must be appropriate to the interests and concerns of those who administer writing programs. The editors welcome empirical research (quantitative as well as qualitative), historical research, and theoretical, essayistic, or reflective pieces.

The length of submissions should be approximately 2,000 to 5,000 words, although the journal occasionally will publish shorter or longer pieces when the subject matter warrants. Please prepare all manuscripts consistent with the following guidelines, and download and include this cover sheet. Doing so will facilitate anonymous, fair review and efficient handling of your work. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines or that are missing the cover page will be returned without review.

• Format your article following the guidelines of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 3rd edition. For citations of Internet resources, use the Columbia Guide to Online Style.
• Please include your abstract as part of the manuscript, following the title and preceding the body of your text.
• Send your article as a regular Word document; if you have special formatting needs or are submitting for the online issues (to come soon), please consult the editors for advice.
• Use Times New Roman font, 12-point type.
• Add a running head with a short title and page numbering at the upper right corner.
• Please check your manuscript carefully prior to submission to insure that any and all comments have been deleted if the “track changes” function was used.
• Please clear the “properties” function so that your article is completely anonymous for the purpose of review.
• Include this cover sheet.

Authors whose work is accepted for publication will be asked to submit final versions in both print and electronic form. Please double-check all citations. Tables should be saved in the program in which they were produced; authors should indicate program type in their correspondence with the editors. Images and line-art should be submitted as image files in uncompressed TIF or JPG format and as separate files, at 300 dpi or higher. Authors are responsible for seeking and securing permissions to use images that they did not create themselves. Authors will also be asked to submit a 100-word biography for inclusion in the “Contributors” section of the journal.

Reviews

WPA publishes reviews of books related to writing programs and their administration. Publishers are invited to send appropriate professional books to Ed White, who will assign reviews.

Announcements and Calls

Relevant announcements and calls for papers will be published as space permits. Announcements should not exceed 500 words, and calls for proposals/participation should not exceed 1,000 words. Please include contact information and/or links for further information. Submission deadlines in calls should be no sooner than January 1 for the fall/winter issue and June 1 for the spring issue. Please e-mail your calls and announcements to journal@wpacouncil.org and include the text in both the body of the message and as an MS Word or RTF attachment.

Contacts

Address articles and editorial correspondence, advertising questions, or production questions to journal@wpacouncil.org.

Address book reviews to Ed White, Book Review Editor, WPA, emwhite@u.arizona.edu.

Subscriptions

To subscribe, join WPA. Individual memberships are $30 for regular faculty, $10 for students, and $40 for institutions. Active members have access to current and past issues through the WPA website also. Back issues (volume 31 and higher) can be purchased through Amazon.com (search on "writing program administration"). Older issues may be purchased by mailing a check for $10/issue to

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Treasurer, WPA
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Grand Valley State University
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lowech@gvsu.edu

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