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References
CCCC's Position Statement. Promotion and tenure guidelines for work with technology. (web site) http://www.ncte.org/cccc/positions/promotion_tenure.shtml.

Cross, Janet, & Fuglevik, Kristian. (1997). Jesters get serious. Kairos, 2.1, (web site) http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/binder2.html?coverweb/candf/cvr.html.

Day, Michael. (2000). Teachers at the crossroads: Evaluating teaching in electronic environments. Computers and Composition, 17.1, 31-40.

Gruber, Sibylle. (2000). Technology and tenure: Creating oppositional discourse in an offline and online world. Computers and Composition, 17.1, 41-56.

Hanson, Linda, Hawisher, Gail, Selfe, Cynthia L., Villanueva, Victor, Yancy, Kathleen. (2003). Tenure and promotion cases for composition faculty who work with technology. (web site) http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~cyselfe/P&TStuff/P&TWeb/Introduction.

Haraway, Donna. (1992). The promises of monsters: A regenerative politics for inappropriate/d others. In Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula A. Treichler (Eds.), Cultural studies (pp. 295-337). New York: Routledge.

Jeney, Cynthia. (2001). CJ's good advice for mentors and first-year tenure-track hires in computers & writing. Kairos, 6:2, (web site) http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.2/binder.html?response/tnf/ceej/index.htm.

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. (1996). Relocating the value of work: Technical communication in a post-industrial age. Technical Communication Quarterly, 5.3, 245-270.

Katz, Seth R. (1997). One department's guidelines for evaluating computer-related work. Kairos, 2.1, (web site) http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/binder2.html?coverweb/katz/art2.html.

Lang, Susan, Walker, Janice, Dorwick, Keith. (2000). Letter from the guest editors. Computers and Composition, 17.1, 1-7.

Nahrwold, Cindy. (1997). "Just" professing: A call for the valuation of prototypical electronic scholarship. Kairos, 2.1, (web site) http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/binder2.html?coverweb/nahrwold/kairos.html.

Rickly, Rebecca. (2000). The tenure of the oppressed: Ambivalent reflections from a critical optimist. Computers and Composition, 17.1, 19-30.

Walker, Janice R. (1997). Fanning the flames: Tenure and promotion and other role-playing games. Kairos, 2.1, (web site) http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/binder2.html?coverweb/walker/intro.html.

Young, Iris Marion. (1990). Justice & the Politics of Difference. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Online Job Search Sites
Please note some of these sites require subscriptions and fees.

Chronicle of Higher Education Online Job Network
http://chronicle.com/jobs/

HigherEdJobs.com
http://www.higheredjobs.com/

H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online
http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/search.cfm

Modern Lanugage Association Job Information List
http://www.mla.org/main_jil.htm

NationJob Network
http://www.nationjob.com/education/

NCTE Classifieds
http://www.ncte.org/classifieds/postings/ads.cgi

University Job Bank
http://www.ujobbank.com/index.html

Job Search Information
ADE and ADFL Online Job Counseling
This site contains advice on career planning and the job market from over seventy authors.
http://www.mla.org/Job_counseling/counseling_home.htm

Auburn University
Career Advising & Job Search
http://www.auburn.edu/english/gs/gradjobs.html
This page offers a timeline for the search, example interview questions, and job search tools.

The MLA Job Information List
Guidelines and Advice for Job Candidates
http://www.mla.org/infocan.htm
This page offers information about the complete job search from the preparation of materials, the "do's and don'ts" for interviews, checklists, and information about legal and ethical job search practices.

Purdue's Job Search Group
Job Searching Resources
http://austen.english.purdue.edu/rcjobs.html
This page provides links to online job search resources, recent articles on job searches and the market, cost of living calculators, and general advice.

University of Arizona
Rhetoric, Composition, and Teaching of English Program Handbook
Job Search Preparation
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rcte/job.htm
This page describes the job search process, calendar, job materials, financial responsibilities, and other useful advice.

University of South Florida
A Handbook for Graduate Students
The Job Search
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/rc/hb/hjob.html
This page offers some general information about job search timelines and material development, but much of the information is specific to USF's students.

Scholarship on Professionalization
Rebecca Rickly's Professional Politics: Situating Composition Studies Bibliography
http://english.ttu.edu/rickly/5365/bib.html
This page offers bibliographic information on professionalization scholarship.

Shirley K Rose's Bibliography for Representing Writing Program Administration:Narratives, Maps, and Metaphors
http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~roses/WPA2000/BiblWPA2000.html
This page has a section entitled "Preparation/Professionalism/Professionalization of WPAs"

Example Job Search Materials
Amy C. Kimme Hea's Web-Based Job Search Materials
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kimmehea/jobmarket/
This site features my own job search web site from my job search two years ago. Some of the links, therefore, will *not* be operational.

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
Academic Cover Letter
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_covseek.html
This page provides an example academic cover letter and discusses the strategies used to develop the letter.

Questions One Should Be Prepared to Answer for Job Interviews
Mary Corbin Sies
http://otal.umd.edu/~sies/jobquess.html
This page offers a list of possible interview questions.

Biograhic & Contact Information
Amy C. Kimme Hea is an Assistant Professor in the Rhetoric, Composition, & Teaching of English Program at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include web-based teaching and learning, teacher training, and professional writing theory and practice. She has published "Articulating (Re)visions of the Web: A Critical Exploration of the Links among Corporatization and Academic Web Site Development and Use" in Working with Words and Images: New Steps in an Old Dance edited by Nancy Allen, "Rearticulating E-dentities in the Web-based Classroom: One Technoresearcher's Exploration of Power & the WWW" in October 2002 special issue of Computers & Composition, Power and the World Wide Web, edited by Sibylle Gruber, & a forthcoming collaborative work with Johndan Johnson-Eilola, "After Hypertext: 20 Years of Hypertext Theory & Practice" in the forthcoming Computers & Composition 20th Anniversary Issue, edited by Danielle Nicole DeVoss and Heidi McKee.

kimmehea@u.arizona.edu | 520.621.1780

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