The outcomes book : debate and consensus after the WPA outcomes statement /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harrington, Susanmarie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2005.
©2005
Temas:
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > United States.
Report writing > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
EDUCATION > Evaluation & Assessment.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching
Report writing > Study and teaching (Higher)
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction Celebrating and complicating the outcomes statement
  • Part one: Contextualizing the outcomes statement
  • The origins of the outcomes statement
  • The outcomes project: the insiders' history
  • Standards, outcomes and All that Jazz
  • Outcomes are not mandates for standardization
  • Expanding our understanding of composing outcomes
  • Part two: The outcomes statement and first-year writing
  • The WPA outcomes statement goes to high school
  • The outcomes statement at a community college: verification, accreditation, and articulation
  • Critical thinking, reading, and writing: a view from the field
  • More than the latest PC buzzword for modes: what genre theory means to composition
  • Processes and outcomes in Arizona's higher education system
  • Knowledge of conventions and the logic of error
  • Celebrating through interrogation: considering the outcomes statement through theoretical lenses.
  • Part three: The outcomes statement beyond first-year writing
  • What the outcomes statement could mean for writing across the curriculum
  • First-year outcomes and upper-level writing
  • Using the outcomes statement for technical communication
  • Using writing outcomes to enhance teaching and learning: Alverno College's experience
  • What the outcomes statement is not: a reading of the Boyer Commission report
  • Part four: Theorizing outcomes
  • The outcomes statement as theorizing potential: through a looking glass
  • A friendly challenge to push the outcomes statement further
  • Outcomes and the developing learner
  • Practice: the road to the outcomes over time
  • Afterword: Bowling together developing, distributing, and using the WPA outcomes statement-and making cultural change.

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