03072oam 22006614a 450 99619912980331620240418033915.00-87421-700-8(CKB)1000000000536015(EBL)353783(OCoLC)609416203(SSID)ssj0000096939(PQKBManifestationID)11138047(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096939(PQKBWorkID)10113624(PQKB)10096906(MdBmJHUP)muse13439(Au-PeEL)EBL3442673(CaPaEBR)ebr10233580(OCoLC)476175551(Au-PeEL)EBL353783(OCoLC)808686604(MiAaPQ)EBC3442673(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/40085(PPN)269626999(EXLCZ)99100000000053601520071214d2008 uy 0engur|n#---|||||txtccrActivist WPA, TheChanging Stories About Writing and Writers /Linda Adler-Kassner1st ed.Utah State University, University Libraries2008Logan, Utah :Utah State University Press,2008.©2008.1 online resource (224 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-87421-699-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-203) and index.Working from a point of principle -- Looking backward -- Framing the public imagination -- Changing conversations about writing and writers: working through a process -- Taking action to change stories -- Working from my own points of principle : Tikkun Olam, prophetic pragmatism, and writing program administration.One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this range of issues for the field of English composition in the age of the Spellings Commission and the No Child Left Behind Act. Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resurWriting centersAdministrationReport writingStudy and teaching (Higher)United StatesEnglish languageRhetoricStudy and teachingUnited StatesWriting centersAdministration.Report writingStudy and teaching (Higher)English languageRhetoricStudy and teaching808/.042071073Adler-Kassner Linda801342Council of Writing Program Administrators (U.S.)MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996199129803316Activist WPA, The2433391UNISA