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on writing program assessment that serves as an essential resource to institutions seeking to est... more on writing program assessment that serves as an essential resource to institutions seeking to establish, revise, or reorganize programmatic assessment practices. This book is of value whether the reader is housed in an English department, a writing intensive department, or is an administrator seeking to include writing program assessment in the accreditation process (6). Holding writing programs in high regard, Edward M. White, Norbert Elliot, and Irvin Peckham provide the reader with models and strategies, as well as terminology , to help empower writing program administrators (WPAs) within their own unique and localized contexts. In this age of austerity, wherein WPAs are subjected to shrinking budgets, proliferating responsibilities, and disenfran-chisement, the authors act as expert advocates for both experienced and novice WPAs. This advocacy is carefully balanced with an eye to the stakehold-ers whom the WPA serves. In addition to students and administrators, the authors also name accreditors and policymakers as stakeholders, illuminating the changing role of assessment (3). Additionally, this text forwards writing program assessment as a unique research genre essential to sustainable institutional ecologies, one in which research and management coexist and which is built upon local needs and goals. Early in the text, the authors make clear the evolving purpose of writing program assessment by describing the three traditional purposes of the assessment of student writing within programmatic assessment. First, writing assessment is traditionally a means for responding to individual students in the classroom or tutoring sessions. The second and third purposes include assessing how well a writing program meets its objectives and a program's ability " to act as a gateway to national programs or universities for individual students taking nationwide tests " (23). In addition to these traditional purposes, a fourth has emerged out of the current push for corporatization and accountability in higher education: determining the degree of a student's preparation for the workplace (23), an important issue discussed at length in Nancy Welch and Tony Scott's recent edited volume, Composition in the Age of Austerity. More and more, writing programs are being called upon to contribute assessment data and improvement plans to accrediting agencies that carry out campus-wide assessment for accreditation; therefore, WPAs are in kind being asked to navigate local needs and regional accreditation requirements. While this poses a number

For well over a century, St. Patrick’s writings, perceived of as a poor example of Latin literatu... more For well over a century, St. Patrick’s writings, perceived of as a poor example of Latin literature and proof of Patrick’s own rustic, uneducated demeanor, have been central to the debate concerning the extent of classical learning in early medieval Ireland.This paper demonstrates through rhetorical analysis the extent of classical rhetorical training St. Patrick's texts demonstrate. Quintilianic rhetoric, declamation, and imitation - both ontotheological and textual, mark Patrick's texts, demonstrating classical learning was prevalent in the transitionary period from Late Christian Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Part of the Composition Studies "Where Are We" section, this paper describes the theoretical and ... more Part of the Composition Studies "Where Are We" section, this paper describes the theoretical and pedagogical impetus behind empirical research into a piloted curriculum at our HBCU based upon H. Samy Alim's Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogy

Book Chapters by Brian J Stone

Expanding the Universe of Writing Studies, 2021

This is the proof. The published version can be found in Blewett, Kelley, Tiane Donahue, and Cynt... more This is the proof. The published version can be found in Blewett, Kelley, Tiane Donahue, and Cynthia Monroe Eds. Expanding the Universe of Writing Studies. Higher Education Research. New York: Peter Lang (2021): 243-58.

Black Perspectives in Writing Program Administration: From the Margins to the Center, 2019

This collection centers writing program administration (WPA) discourse as intersectional race wor... more This collection centers writing program administration (WPA) discourse as intersectional race work. In this historical moment in public discourse when race and racist logics are no longer sanitized in coded language or veiled political rhetoric, contributors provide examples of how WPA scholars can push back against the ways in which larger, cultural rhetorical projects inform our institutional practices, are coded into administrative agendas, and are reflected in programmatic objectives and interpersonal relations.

on writing program assessment that serves as an essential resource to institutions seeking to est... more on writing program assessment that serves as an essential resource to institutions seeking to establish, revise, or reorganize programmatic assessment practices. This book is of value whether the reader is housed in an English department, a writing intensive department, or is an administrator seeking to include writing program assessment in the accreditation process (6). Holding writing programs in high regard, Edward M. White, Norbert Elliot, and Irvin Peckham provide the reader with models and strategies, as well as terminology , to help empower writing program administrators (WPAs) within their own unique and localized contexts. In this age of austerity, wherein WPAs are subjected to shrinking budgets, proliferating responsibilities, and disenfran-chisement, the authors act as expert advocates for both experienced and novice WPAs. This advocacy is carefully balanced with an eye to the stakehold-ers whom the WPA serves. In addition to students and administrators, the authors also name accreditors and policymakers as stakeholders, illuminating the changing role of assessment (3). Additionally, this text forwards writing program assessment as a unique research genre essential to sustainable institutional ecologies, one in which research and management coexist and which is built upon local needs and goals. Early in the text, the authors make clear the evolving purpose of writing program assessment by describing the three traditional purposes of the assessment of student writing within programmatic assessment. First, writing assessment is traditionally a means for responding to individual students in the classroom or tutoring sessions. The second and third purposes include assessing how well a writing program meets its objectives and a program's ability " to act as a gateway to national programs or universities for individual students taking nationwide tests " (23). In addition to these traditional purposes, a fourth has emerged out of the current push for corporatization and accountability in higher education: determining the degree of a student's preparation for the workplace (23), an important issue discussed at length in Nancy Welch and Tony Scott's recent edited volume, Composition in the Age of Austerity. More and more, writing programs are being called upon to contribute assessment data and improvement plans to accrediting agencies that carry out campus-wide assessment for accreditation; therefore, WPAs are in kind being asked to navigate local needs and regional accreditation requirements. While this poses a number

For well over a century, St. Patrick’s writings, perceived of as a poor example of Latin literatu... more For well over a century, St. Patrick’s writings, perceived of as a poor example of Latin literature and proof of Patrick’s own rustic, uneducated demeanor, have been central to the debate concerning the extent of classical learning in early medieval Ireland.This paper demonstrates through rhetorical analysis the extent of classical rhetorical training St. Patrick's texts demonstrate. Quintilianic rhetoric, declamation, and imitation - both ontotheological and textual, mark Patrick's texts, demonstrating classical learning was prevalent in the transitionary period from Late Christian Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Part of the Composition Studies "Where Are We" section, this paper describes the theoretical and ... more Part of the Composition Studies "Where Are We" section, this paper describes the theoretical and pedagogical impetus behind empirical research into a piloted curriculum at our HBCU based upon H. Samy Alim's Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogy

Expanding the Universe of Writing Studies, 2021

This is the proof. The published version can be found in Blewett, Kelley, Tiane Donahue, and Cynt... more This is the proof. The published version can be found in Blewett, Kelley, Tiane Donahue, and Cynthia Monroe Eds. Expanding the Universe of Writing Studies. Higher Education Research. New York: Peter Lang (2021): 243-58.

Black Perspectives in Writing Program Administration: From the Margins to the Center, 2019

This collection centers writing program administration (WPA) discourse as intersectional race wor... more This collection centers writing program administration (WPA) discourse as intersectional race work. In this historical moment in public discourse when race and racist logics are no longer sanitized in coded language or veiled political rhetoric, contributors provide examples of how WPA scholars can push back against the ways in which larger, cultural rhetorical projects inform our institutional practices, are coded into administrative agendas, and are reflected in programmatic objectives and interpersonal relations.