Table of Contents
Introduction: Composition in the Age of Austerity Tony Scott Nancy Welch 3
Part I Neoliberal Deformations
1 Our Trojan Horse: Outcomes Assessment and the Resurrection of Competency-Based Education Chris W. Gallagher 21
2 Confessions of an Assessment Fellow Deborah Mutnick 35
3 First-Year Composition Course Redesigns: Pedagogical Innovation or Solution to the "Cost Disease"? Emily J. Isaacs 51
4 Who's Coming to the Composition Classroom? K-12 Writing in and outside the Context of Common Core State Standards Marcelle M. Haddix Brandi Williams 65
Part II Composition in an Austere World
5 The National Writing Project in the Age of Austerity Tom Fox Elyse Eidman-Aadahl 77
6 Occupy Basic Writing: Pedagogy in the Wake of Austerity Susan Naomi Bernstein 92
7 Austerity behind Bars: The "Cost" of Prison College Programs Tobi Jacobi 106
8 BuskerFest: The Struggle for Space in Public Rhetorical Education Mary Ann Cain 120
9 First-Year Writing and the Angels of Austerity: A Re-Domesticated Drama Nancy Welch 132
Part III Composition at the Crossroads
10 What Happens When Ideological Narratives Lose Their Force? Jeanne Gunner 149
11 Composition's Dead Ann Larson 163
12 Austerity, Contingency, and Administrative Bloat: Writing Programs and Universities in an Age of Feast and Famine Eileen E. Schell 177
13 Beyond Marketability: Locating Teacher Agency in the Neoliberal University Shari Stenberg 191
14 Animated by the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Austerity, Dispossession, and Composition's Last Living Act Tony Scott 205
Afterword: Hacking the Body Politic Lil Brannon 220
About the Authors 229
Index 233