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Professional Information
- Position Title
- Director of First Year Writing
- Institution or Organization
- Eastern Michigan University
- URL of Writing Program
- http://www.emich.edu/english/fycomp
- Rank
- Associate Professor
- Areas of Research/Teaching/WPA Interests
Activism and writing program administration; history of literacy; basic writing; definitions of literacy in sociocultural contexts
- Publications of Interest to WPAs
Adler-Kassner, Linda. Activist Writing Program Administration: Changing Stories. Under contract, Utah State UP.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. “Building Community Through Writing Program Assessment.” Accepted for inclusion in Bob Broad, Ed. Dynamic Criteria Mapping: Theory Into Practice. Under contract, Utah State UP.
Adler-Kassner, Linda, Chris Anson, and Rebecca Moore Howard. “Framing Plagiarism.” In Martha Vicinus, Ed. Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplinary Collection. Forthcoming, U of Michigan Press, 2007.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. “Reading Practices in the Writing Classroom.” WPA Journal. Forthcoming (Fall 2007).
Published Articles and Books Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington. “In the Here and Now: Public Policy and Basic Writing” Journal of Basic Writing (Spring 2007): 27-48. (Invited submission)
Adler-Kassner, Linda, ed. Reading and Writing the College Experience. New York: Longman Publishers, 2005.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. “Reaching Out from the Writing Classroom: Research Writing as a Situated, Public Act.” In Writing in Context(s): Textual Practices and Learning Processes in Sociocultural Settings, ed. Triantafillia Kostouli. New York: Springer, 2005. 229-246.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. “Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A View from the Field.” In The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus after the WPA Outcomes Statement, ed. Susanmarie Harrington et al. Logan: Utah State UP, 2005. 60-71.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. “Rethinking Researched Writing: Public Literacy in the Composition Classroom.” WPA Journal 26.3 (Spring 2003): 119-131.
Adler-Kassner, Linda. “Literacy, Ecology, and ‘At-Risk’ Students: A Report from the Other Side.” English Education (October 2002): 89-95.
Adler-Kassner, Linda. “Race in Class: Students, Teaching, and Stories.” Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom. Dawn Skorczewski and Matthew Parfitt, eds. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook, 2002: 69-80.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington. Basic Writing as a Political Act: Public Conversations about Writing and Literacies. Creskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 2002.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Gregory Glau, eds. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2002. (2nd ed, 2005)
Gray-Rosendale, Laura and Linda Adler-Kassner, et. al. “Basic Writing’s Past, Present, and Future: A Discussion of Problems and Possibilities.” Composition Studies (Fall 2001): 37-70.
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington, eds. Questioning Authority: Stories Told In School. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, March 2001.
Adler-Kassner, Linda. "Structure and Possibility: New Scholarship about Students-Called-Basic-Writers." College English (November 2000): 229-243.
Adler-Kassner, Linda. "'Just Writing, Basically:' Basic Writers on Basic Writing.” Journal of Basic Writing (Fall 1999): 69-90. Reprinted in Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2002.
- Reassigned Time for WPA Work
Normal teaching load in my department is 3/3; I teach a 1-2 load but also teach an intensive 2-week workshop for new graduate instructors that begins two weeks before the fall term (and continues through the term).
Program Profile and Information
- Program Name
- First Year Writing Program
- Program Website
- http://www.emich.edu/english/fycomp/
- Institution
- Eastern Michigan University
- Program Address 1
- English Department
- Program Address 2
- 612 Pray Harrold
- City
- Ypsilanti
- State/Province
- MI
- Zip
- 48197