WPA: Writing Program Administration

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September 2025

  1. “Becoming Antiracist” in the Time of DEI Backlash: Redefining FYC at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
  2. Working Toward Fairness in Program-Wide Tools: A Collaborative, Locally Grounded, Flexible, and Descriptive Assessment Heuristic for First-Year Writing
  3. A Pre-Pandemic Snapshot of a Culture of (in)Access: Accommodation Statements in the Document Ecology of the First-Year Writing Programs in Michigan

April 2025

  1. Addressing Equity Gaps in an HSI First-Year Writing Program: Institutional Initiatives and Faculty Collaborations
  2. Review of Desegregation State: College Writing Programs after the Civil Rights Movement

September 2024

  1. Using a Faculty Survey to Model Successful Instruction in First-Year Writing: Faculty Development Without Faculty Conflict
  2. Are We Preparing Students to Write Across the Curriculum?: An Analysis of Learning Outcomes for First-Year Composition at Two-Year Colleges
  3. Review of Two-Year College Writing Studies: Rationale and Praxis for Just Teaching

April 2024

  1. Scarier Than It Seems: Multimodal Composition in GTA Training

September 2022

  1. Examining Retention at the SLAC: The Impact of Race, Class, and Resource Use on First-Year Writing
  2. Directed Self-Placement and the Figured World of College Writing

June 2021

  1. Teaching Anti-Racist Reading Practices in First-Year Writing
  2. Interventions Foregrounding and Honoring Black Language in FYC from a HBCU/PBI Perspective

June 2020

  1. Departmental Democracy and Invention in Two-Year College Writing Programs
  2. Preparing to Become a Two-Year College Writing Program Administrator

April 2019

  1. College Reading and College Writing: How Far Have We Come?

April 2018

  1. Inez in Translation: Using Case Studies to Explore the Experiences of Underrepresented Students in First-Year Composition

April 2017

  1. Race, Silence, and Writing Program Administration: A Qualitative Study of US College Writing Program

September 2016

  1. 'Flexible' Learning, Disciplinarity, and First-Year Writing: Critically Engaging Competency-Based Education

April 2016

  1. Taming Big Data through Agile Approaches to Instructor Training and Assessment: Managing Ongoing Professional Development in Large First-Year Writing Programs

April 2015

  1. How Do Dual Credit Students Perform on College Writing Tasks After They Arrive on Campus? Empirical Data from a Large-Scale Study
  2. Making Space for Service Learning in First-Year Composition
  3. Reconsidering Content in First-Year Composition: A Study of "Teaching for Transfer

September 2014

  1. Revising FYC Outcomes for a Multimodal, Digitally Composed World: The WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (Version 3.0)
  2. WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition

September 2013

  1. When the Writing Requirements Went Away: An Institutional Case Study of Twenty Years of Decentralization/Abolition

September 2011

  1. Credentialing College Writing Teachers: WPAs and Labor Reform

April 2011

  1. What Is Real College Writing? Let the Disagreement Never End

April 2010

  1. First Steps Beyond First Year: Coaching Transfer After FYC
  2. First-Year College Writing and the AP English Language Exam: How a High School/College Partnership Affected Exam Performance

April 2009

  1. Examining the Presence of Advocacy and Commercial Websites in Research Essays of First-Year Composition Students

April 2008

  1. Service vs. Subject Matter: Merging First-Year Composition and First-Year Experience
  2. The Prospects for Rhetoric in a First-Year Composition Program: Deliberative Discourse as a Vehicle for Change?
  3. Review: College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction by Anne Beaufort

September 2007

  1. Understanding ‘Transfer’ from FYC: Preliminary Results of a Longitudinal Study
  2. Perceived Roadblocks to Transferring Knowledge from First-Year Composition to Writing-Intensive Major Courses: A Pilot Study

April 2007

  1. Standardizing a First-year Writing Program: Contested Sites of Influence

September 2003

  1. Handling Curricular Resources: An Examination of Two Teachers? Tactical Appropriation of First-Year Composition Curricula

April 2003

  1. Introduction: Changing the First-Year Writing Curriculum
  2. Beyond First-Year Composition: Not Your Grandmother’s General Education Composition Program
  3. First-Year Writing in First-Year Seminars: Writing across the Curriculum from the Start
  4. Distance Education and the First-Year Writing Curriculum
  5. From First-Year Composition to Second-Year Multiliteracies: Integrating Instruction in Oral, Written, and Visual Communication at a Technological University

September 1999

  1. The WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition

April 1999

  1. The Problem of Freshman English (Only): Towards Programs of Study in Writing

September 1997

  1. Alternative Models of First-Year Composition: Possibilities and Problems
  2. Reinventing First-Year Composition at the First Land-Grant University: A Cautionary Tale
  3. What Happens to the Writing Program Administrator When the Writing Requirements Go Away?

September 1995

  1. The Writing Studio Program: Reconfiguring Basic Writing/Freshman Composition

September 1994

  1. An Examination of Writing Program Administrators' Options for the Placement of ESL Students in First Year Writing Classes