TY - BOOK ID - 8657235 TI - Activist WPA, The : Changing Stories About Writing and Writers AU - Adler-Kassner, Linda. AU - Council of Writing Program Administrators (U.S.) PY - 2008 SN - 0874216990 0874217008 9780874217001 9780874216998 PB - Utah State University, University Libraries DB - UniCat KW - English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States. KW - English language. KW - Language Arts & Disciplines. KW - Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States. KW - Writing centers - Administration. KW - English language KW - Report writing KW - Writing centers KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Language KW - Rhetoric KW - Study and teaching KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - Administration KW - Administration. KW - Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8657235 AB - One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this range of issues for the field of English composition in the age of the Spellings Commission and the No Child Left Behind Act. Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resur ER -