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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213816703321

Titolo

The outcomes book : debate and consensus after the WPA outcomes statement / / edited by Susanmarie Harrington ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, : Utah State University Press, c2005

ISBN

9786613283344

9781283283342

1283283344

9780874215021

0874215021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HarringtonSusanmarie

Disciplina

808/.042/071073

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This volume of essays reflects on the process that led to the development of the "WPA outcomes statement," and includes debate on the many theoretical, pedagogical, political, and assessment issues that the outcomes statement raises.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical reference (p. [228]-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION Celebrating and Complicating the Outcomes Statement; PART ONE Contextualizing the Outcomes Statement; PART TWO The Outcomes Statement and First-Year Writing; PART THREE The Outcomes Statement beyond First-Year Writing; PART FOUR Theorizing Outcomes; Afterword BOWLING TOGETHER Developing, Distributing, and Using the WPA Outcomes Statement-and Making Cultural Change; NOTES; REFERENCES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The WPA Outcomes Statement is important because it represents a working consensus among composition scholars about what college students should learn and do in a composition program. But as a single-page document, the statement cannot convey the kind of reflective process that a writing program must undertake to address the learning outcomes described. The Outcomes Book relates the fuller process by exploring the matrix of concerns that surrounded the



developing Statement itself, and by presenting the experience of many who have since employed it in their own settings.