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Inside And Outside (Contact) Zone: An Authoethnography Of A Writing Program And College Athletics Administrator, William Broussard
Inside And Outside (Contact) Zone: An Authoethnography Of A Writing Program And College Athletics Administrator, William Broussard
University Advancement Publications
Drawing from the social movement rhetorical theory of Harold Cruse and the ethnographic theory of Clifford Geertz, Mary Louise Pratt, and Kevin Michael Foster, this article is a historiographical construction of past and a consideration of the future involvement of college writing programs and Writing Program Administrators (WPA) as potent agents of student-athlete advocacy. Through engagement in social movement and educational reform on the campus of an NCAA host institution, the author uses autoethnography to develop a fuller understanding of the successful rhetorical practices he employed (and failed to employ) in his work as a writing program administrator, educator, and …