WPA 2009 Conference Sessions

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Session Title Presenters
A1 Sustainable Assessment Processes: Cultivating a Culture and Scholarship of Program Evaluation Jane Detweiler, Crystal Broch Colombini, Zachary Bankston, David Marquard, Sandra Weinstein Bever
A2 Building Faculty Morale in “Hard Times” Fredel M. Wiant
A2 Responding to Standardized Testing on Campus Elliott Gruner
A2 Discerning the Best Assessment Course When There’s Already a Pig in the Poke Debra Frank Dew
A3 Mis/Understanding Information Literacy: WPAs, Librarians, and the General Education Curriculum Erica Frisicaro-Pawlowski, Margaret Artman, Robert Monge
A4 When Anxiety Disorders Come to Class: Suggestions for Dealing with this Dilemma Kathleen Hunzer
A4 An alternative to the “pound of flesh” FYW staffing metric Scott Warnock
A4 When Instructors Go Bad, Who Is Accountable for What, and What Are the Costs? Patrick Shaw
A5 WAC in One Afternoon: Rethinking Writing at a Small College in Transition Jim Webber, Mike Garcia, Jeff Ringer
B1 Making the Most of the WPA Website Charlie Lowe
B2 Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been? Writing Centers as Ideal Training Grounds for Future WPAs Julia Bleakney, Tom Friedrich, Kirsten Jamsen, Susan Meyers
B3 Close Focus on Assessment Process: A Roundtable on Rubric Development and Reader Training Jane Detweiler, Crystal Colombini, Maura Grady, David Marquard, Zach Bankston
B4 Using WPA Documents to Guide Institutional Policy Statements Joe Janangelo, Peggy O'Neill, Gina Meyers, KJ Peters
B5 “The Art of Discernment: Confessions of a Junior WPA” Darci Thoune
B5 A WPA’s Charge: Faculty Development by Design and by Stealth
B7 Scholarly Publishing in Challenging Times: Advice from Editors Susan McLeod, Margot Soven, Deirdre Pettipiece, & Kathleen Blake Yancey (respondent)
B8 Writing-About-Writing FYC Courses From Three Perspectives: Director, Instructor/Coordinator, and Adjunct Elizabeth Wardle, Deborah Weaver, Adele Richardson
C1 Moving Forward: Foregrounding “Writing” Lorelei Blackburn, Dominic DelliCarpini, Darsie Bowden
C2 Mapping Program Genre-Systems for Institutional Change Dylan Dryer; Pat Burnes
C3 Assistant Director Positions: Potentials and Pitfalls Gregory Glau, Nicholas Behm
C4 WPA Perspectives on Instructor Comments: A Roundtable on Response Joel Wingard, Scott Warnock, Jeanne Marie Rose, John Eliason
C5 Discerning Roles and Responsibilities: Graduate WPAs and a Showcase of Student Writing Danielle Cordaro, Kristine Johnson, Tom Sura, Jaclyn Wells
C7 Second Generation Mainstreaming for Basic Writers: The Accelerated Learning Project (ALP) Stephanie Briggs, Laurie Berglie, and Peter Adams
C8 A National Study of Writing’s Contributions to Learning in College: Major Findings and Practical Implications for All Writing Pr Paul Anderson, Chris Anson, & Chuck Paine
C9 Washington State University Writing Program’s evolutionary step: The move from homegrown OWL to the NW eTutoring.org consortium Patrick Johnson