Feb 152013
 

Central to our work in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric is the teaching of first year writing. Regardless of your position in the university, you have inevitably found yourself or still find yourself sitting in a dungeon on the bottom floor of a building in a cubicle grading papers, meeting with students, and chatting with colleagues about how life is really unfair. No doubt during one of those venting sessions you have dreamt about how wonderful it would be to be paid more, to have fewer students in each of your classes, and to have more freedom in your classroom to teach what students want and need to learn.

Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition by Tony Scott

Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition by Tony Scott

Episode 3 features Professor Tony Scott talking about the influence and ongoing relevance of his book Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition.

To read a PDF of the full transcript, please download it here: Transcript for Episode 3.

 

 

Jan 042013
 

“Writing programs are complex ecosystems, rooted in particular institutional soil, populated with a shifting mixture of personalities, pedagogical priorities, literacy goals, and both administrative and public pressures. As Writing Program Administrators, we have to strike a fine balance between the particulars of the local and the disciplinary best practices our field has negotiated in this current national educational climate. To understand the finer points of this balance, we spoke with Linda Adler-Kassner, Writing Program Administrator at University of California-Santa Barbara and author of The Activist WPA.”

The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writers & Writing by Linda Adler-Kassner

The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writers & Writing by Linda Adler-Kassner

Our pilot podcast features Professor Linda Adler-Kassner (UC Santa Barbara) and TJ Geiger (Syracuse University).

To read a PDF of the full transcript, please download it here: Transcript for Pilot Podcast.