Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus after the WPA Outcomes Statement
edited by Susanmarie Harrington, Keith Rhodes, Ruth Fischer and Rita Malenczyk
Utah State University Press, 2005 eISBN: 978-0-87421-502-1 | Paper: 978-0-87421-604-2 Library of Congress Classification PE1405.U6O94 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 808.042071073
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
The WPA Outcomes Statement
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Celebrating and Complicating the Outcomes Statement
PART ONE: CONTEXTUALIZING THE OUTCOMES STATEMENT
1 Why Outcomes?: The Origins of the Outcomes Statement
Edward White
2 The Outcomes Project: The Insiders' History
Keith Rhodes, Irv Peckham, Linda Bergmann, and Bill Condon
3 Standards, Outcomes and All That Jazz
Kathleen Blake Yancey
4 Outcomes and Standards Movements
Mark Wiley
5 Technology and the Outcomes Statement
Cynthia Y. Selfe & Patricia Freitag Ericsson
PART TWO: THE OUTCOMES STATEMENT AND FIRST-YEAR WRITING
6 The WPA Outcomes Statement Goes to High School
Steve Wilhoit
7 The Outcomes Statement at a Community College: Verification, Accreditation, and
Articulation
J. L. McClure
8 Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking: A View from the Field
Linda Adler-Kassner & Heidi Estrem
9 More than the Latest PC Buzzword for Modes: What Genre Theory Means to
Composition
Barbara Little Liu
10 Processes and Outcomes in Arizona's Higher Education System
Duane Roen & Greg Glau
11 Knowledge of Conventions and the Logic of Error
Donald Wolff
12 Celebrating Through Interrogation: Considering the Outcomes Statement Through
Theoretical Lenses
Patricia Freitag Ericsson
PART THREE: THE OUTCOMES STATEMENT BEYOND FIRST-YEAR
WRITING
13 What the Outcomes Could Mean for WAC
Martha A. Townsend
14 First-year Outcomes and Upper Level Writing
Susanmarie Harrington
15 Using the Outcomes Statement for Technical Communication
Barry M. Maid
16 Writing Outcomes as a Language of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Robert O'Brien Hokanson
17 What the Outcomes Statement is Not: A Reading of the Boyer Commission
Rita Malenczyk
PART FOUR: THEORIZING OUTCOMES
18 The Praxis of the Outcomes Statement
Ruth Fischer
19 Outcomes and The Whole Learner
Peter Elbow
20 Outcomes and the Developing Learner
Richard Haswell
21 Outcomes and the Constructed Learner
Marilyn Sternglass
Afterword
Kathleen Blake Yancey
Notes
References
Contributors
Index
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Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus after the WPA Outcomes Statement
edited by Susanmarie Harrington, Keith Rhodes, Ruth Fischer and Rita Malenczyk
Utah State University Press, 2005 eISBN: 978-0-87421-502-1 Paper: 978-0-87421-604-2
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
The WPA Outcomes Statement
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Celebrating and Complicating the Outcomes Statement
PART ONE: CONTEXTUALIZING THE OUTCOMES STATEMENT
1 Why Outcomes?: The Origins of the Outcomes Statement
Edward White
2 The Outcomes Project: The Insiders' History
Keith Rhodes, Irv Peckham, Linda Bergmann, and Bill Condon
3 Standards, Outcomes and All That Jazz
Kathleen Blake Yancey
4 Outcomes and Standards Movements
Mark Wiley
5 Technology and the Outcomes Statement
Cynthia Y. Selfe & Patricia Freitag Ericsson
PART TWO: THE OUTCOMES STATEMENT AND FIRST-YEAR WRITING
6 The WPA Outcomes Statement Goes to High School
Steve Wilhoit
7 The Outcomes Statement at a Community College: Verification, Accreditation, and
Articulation
J. L. McClure
8 Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking: A View from the Field
Linda Adler-Kassner & Heidi Estrem
9 More than the Latest PC Buzzword for Modes: What Genre Theory Means to
Composition
Barbara Little Liu
10 Processes and Outcomes in Arizona's Higher Education System
Duane Roen & Greg Glau
11 Knowledge of Conventions and the Logic of Error
Donald Wolff
12 Celebrating Through Interrogation: Considering the Outcomes Statement Through
Theoretical Lenses
Patricia Freitag Ericsson
PART THREE: THE OUTCOMES STATEMENT BEYOND FIRST-YEAR
WRITING
13 What the Outcomes Could Mean for WAC
Martha A. Townsend
14 First-year Outcomes and Upper Level Writing
Susanmarie Harrington
15 Using the Outcomes Statement for Technical Communication
Barry M. Maid
16 Writing Outcomes as a Language of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Robert O'Brien Hokanson
17 What the Outcomes Statement is Not: A Reading of the Boyer Commission
Rita Malenczyk
PART FOUR: THEORIZING OUTCOMES
18 The Praxis of the Outcomes Statement
Ruth Fischer
19 Outcomes and The Whole Learner
Peter Elbow
20 Outcomes and the Developing Learner
Richard Haswell
21 Outcomes and the Constructed Learner
Marilyn Sternglass
Afterword
Kathleen Blake Yancey
Notes
References
Contributors
Index
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