Making Your Writing Program Work: A Guide to Good Practices

By Thomas L. Hilgers and Joy Marsella

"(The book will) be useful to those who find themselves charged to create or maintain a program in writing across the curriculum at any university or school. . . . This book′s strength is its sobriety and the generic character of its perspective and guidance. . . . It is a handbook that offers sage advice and useful resources to anyone responsible for a writing program′s administration and development. The authors do an admirable job of identifying published materials and networks that can benefit a program′s administration. . . . A book to which one wishes to refer often." --The Quarterly of the National Writing Project & the Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy The number of American writing programs grows by the month, but because a typical program employs only one or two specialists, teachers of writing must increasingly do much more than teach. In the past, writing programs were little more than a list of suggestions for students or, at the most, an ubiquitous English 101. But today′s writing programs require specialists with a working knowledge of curricular alternatives, assessment methods, budgeting, and hiring procedures. Making Your Writing Program Work will assist those who create, evaluate, and oversee writing programs and allow them instead to give their best thinking to students, to the teaching of writing, and to the training of faculty. The text includes examples from composition, writing-across-the-curriculum, technical, and creative writing programs at every educational level and is an indispensable aid to running programs both large and small. Written to prompt effective needs assessments and program evaluations and to help improve delivery of services to students and teachers, this comprehensive new book will also assist researchers and guide students and professors in the field of educational administration.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803945752
• ISBN13: 9780803945753
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"