Volume 21 Number 2 | Composition Studies

Volume 21 Number 2 Fall 1993

Joseph M. Moxley	Reinventing the Wheel or Teaching the Basics: College Writers' Knowledge of Argumentation
Irvin Peckham	Beyond Grades
Sidney I. Dobrin	Turning the Tables: An (Inter)view with Gary A. Olson
Wendy Bishop and Gay Lynn Crossley	Doing the Hokey Pokey? Why Writing Program Administrators' Job Conditions Don't Seem to Be Improving
Nick Tingle	The Lessons of LINKs
Ruth M. Mirtz	Shaping, Sharpening, and Other Theories of Meaning-Making in First-Year College Writers
Ronda Leathers Dively	Religious Discourse in the Academy: Creating a Space by Means of Poststructuralist Theories of Subjectivity

Abstracts for Composition Studies 21.2

Bishop, Wendy and Gay Lynn Crossley. "Doing the Hokey Pokey? Why Program Administrators' Job Conditions Don't Seem to Be Improving." Composition Studies/FEN (21.2): 45-59.

Bishop and Crossley studied their own writing program, keeping time-charts and journals, and creating a year-long case study examining one WPA's responsiblities and roles. Despite training for the position, they found the WPA's attempts to redefine her position based on her professional expertise resulted in a limited and unsatisfactory set of program and career options.