Introduction

WPA Inquiry in Action and Reflection

Shirley K Rose

Irwin Weiser

Part I: Writing Program Administrators' Inquiry in Action

Diverse Research Methodologies at Work for Diverse Audiences: Shaping the Writing Center to the Institution

Muriel Harris

Research (Im)Possibilities: Feminist Methods and WPA Inquiry

Julia Ferganchick-Neufang

Conflicts Between Teaching and Assessing Writing: Using Program-Based Research to Resolve Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas

Betty Bamberg

Outcomes Assessment Research as a Teaching Tool

Wanda Martin

The Contributions of Sociolinguistic Profiling and Constituents' Expectations to Writing Program Evaluation

Mark Schaub

After the Practicum: Assessing Teacher Preparation Programs

Sarah Liggett

Reflective Essays, Curriculum, and the Scholarship of Administration: Notes Toward Administrative Scholarly Work

Kathleen Blake Yancey

Meg Morgan

Local Research and Curriculum Development: Using Surveys to Learn About Writing Assignments in the DIsciplines

Irwin Weiser

Part II: Writing Program Administrators' Inquiry in Reflection

Preserving Our Histories of Institutional Change: Enabling Research in the Writing Program Archives

Shirley K Rose

WPAs as Historians: Discovering a First-Year Writing Program by Researching Its Past

Ruth M. Mirtz

Finding Ourselves in the Past: An Argument for Historical Work on WPAs

Barbara L' Eplattenier

Subject to Interpretation: The Role of Research in Writing Programs and Its Relationship to the Politics of Administration in Higher Education

Chris M. Anson

Robert L. Brown, Jr.

``Seeing'' the WPA With/Through Postmodern Mapping

Tim Peeples

Telling a Writing Program Its Own Story: A Tenth-Anniversary Speech

Louise Wetherbee Phelps

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