Organic Writing Assessment

Bob Broad is a professor of English at Illinois State University. He teaches graduate courses in rhetoric and composition, writing assessment, research methods, and pedagogy, as well as a variety of undergraduate courses in writing, English studies, and English education.

Linda Adler-Kassner is professor of writing studies, associate dean of undergraduate education, and faculty director of the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching focus broadly on how literate agents and activities—such as writers, writing, and writing studies—are defined in contexts inside the academy and in public discourse. She also examines the implications and consequences of those definitions and how writing faculty can participate in shaping them. She is author, coauthor, or coeditor of nine books, including Reframing Writing Assessment, Naming What We Know, and The Activist WPA.

Barry Alford has taught writing in two-year colleges for more than twenty years. He has also published essays on language theory, postmodernism, and writing assessment.

Jane Detweiler is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She explores writing in academic, professional, and public environments, with emphases on narrative as a mode of understanding the world and a means of inventing, composing, and delivering arguments.

Heidi Estrem is professor of English and director of the first-year writing program at Boise State University, which was recently awarded the Council of Basic Writing’s Award for Innovation. She has published on first-year writing pedagogy, new instructor development and support, and a range of writing program administration issues in WPA: Writing Program Administration, Composition Studies, Pedagogy, and numerous edited collections.

Susanmarie Harrington is director of Writing in the Disciplines and a professor of English at the University of Vermont. Her publications include Basic Writing as a Political Act and The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus in the Wake of the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Outcomes Statement.

Maureen McBride is the assistant director of the University Writing Center at the University of Nevada, Reno and a co-director of the Northern Nevada Writing Project. 

Eric Stalions is an assistant professor of English and the director of the Intensive English Program at Martin Methodist College.

Scott Weeden teaches in the English department at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.