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The Wyoming Conference Resolution: A Beginning.
Trimbur, John; Cambridge, Barbara – Writing Program Administration, 1988
Discusses the Wyoming Conference Resolution, which calls on the Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee to formulate professional standards for postsecondary writing teachers; and set up grievance procedures against, and to establish means to censure, institutions which fail to comply with these standards. Appends…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Postsecondary Education, Professional Development, Salaries
Bibliography of Writing Textbooks.
Weaver, Barbara – Writing Program Administration, 1985
Provides brief annotations for writing textbooks in the following categories: (1) developmental writing, (2) freshman composition, (3) advanced writing, and (4) professional concerns. Contains a list of participating publishers. (FL)
Descriptors: Anthologies, Guides, Higher Education, Professional Development
Dancing on the Interface: Leadership and the Politics of Collaboration.
Martin, Wanda – Writing Program Administration, 1988
Describes the efforts of the basic writing program at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) to develop portfolio evaluation procedures to replace exit examinations. As a result, collaboration has come to play a more important role in relationships between administrator and teacher, as well as between teacher and student. (JK)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Leadership Styles, Minimum Competencies, Professional Development
Writing Center Directors: The Search for Professional Status.
Olson, Gary A.; Ashton-Jones, Evelyn – Writing Program Administration, 1988
Surveys freshman English directors in order to help define the role of the writing center director. Discusses how writing center directors are viewed within English departments. Appends the questionnaire used. (MS)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College English, English Departments