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WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within programmatic contexts advocacy and institutional critique and change; writing programs and their extra-institutional relationships with writing's publics; technology and the delivery of writing instruction within programmatic contexts; wpa and writing program histories and contexts; WAC / ECAC / WID and their intersections with writing programs; the theory and philosophy of writing program administration issues of professional advancement and WPA work; and projects that enhance WPA work with diverse stakeholders. CONTENTS OF WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 36.2 (Spring 2013): From the Editors | The Preceptor Problem: The Effect of "Undisciplined Writing" on Disciplined Instructors by Faye Halpern | Students in the First-Year ESL Writing Program: Revisiting the Notion of "Traditional" ESL by Elena Lawrick | "We Don't Need Any More Brochures": Rethinking Deliverables in Service-Learning Curricula by Kendall Leon and Thomas Sura | Using Systems Thinking to Transform Writing Programs by Dan Melzer | Students' Rights and the Ethics of Celebration by Mark Mullen | Negotiating Expertise: A Pedagogical Framework for Cross-curricular Literacy Work by Sandra L.Tarabochia | Low Country Boil with Peanuts: Interview with Michael Pemberton and Janice Walker | Shirley K Rose | Review Essay: A Word for Peter Elbow, Peter.Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing by Chris M. Anson | Review Essay: Feminist WPA Work: Beyond Oxymorons, Performing Feminism and Administration in Rhetoric and Composition Studies edited by Krista Ratcliffe and Rebecca Rickly, Reviewed by Laura R. Micciche and Donna Strickland | Review Essay: To Catch Lightning in a Bottle: Quests for Responsible Writing Assessment and for Definition of Our Discipline, Writing Assessment in the 21st Cen¬tury: Essays in Honor of Edward M. White, edited by Norbert Elliot and Les Perelman, and The Changing of Knowl¬edge in Composition: Contemporary Perspectives edited by Lance Massey and Richard C.Gebhardt, reviewed by Chris Thaiss | Announcement | Contributors