Writing Across the Curriculum

Introduction: A History of Inquiry: The Resilience of Writing Across the Curriculum

Part One CHARTING THE WAC MOVEMENT
Introduction
1. The Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Movement: 1970-1990
David R. Russell
2. Language Across the Curriculum
Alan Bullock and the Committee of Enquiry
3. The Pedagogy of Writing Across the Curriculum
Susan McLeod
4. WAC as Critical Pedagogy: The Third Stage?
Donna LeCourt
5. Theory in WAC: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going?
Christopher Thaiss

Part Two PRACTICING WAC
Introduction
6. Showing, Not Telling, at a Writing Workshop
Toby Fulwiler

7. Writing to Learn: Writing Across the Disciplines
Anne J. Herrington
8. Writing Assignments Across the Curriculum: A National Study of College Writing
Dan Melzer
9. Microtheme Strategies for Developing Cognitive Skills
John C. Bean, Dean Drenk, and F. D. Lee
10. Writing Across and Against the Curriculum
Art Young
11. Introducing Students to Disciplinary Genres: The Role of the General Composition Course
Patricia Linton, Robert Madigan, and Susan Johnson
12. One Size Does Not Fit All: Plagiarism Across the Curriculum
Sandra Jamieson
13. Interdisciplinary Work as Professional Development: Changing the Culture of Teaching
Joan A. Mullin

Part Three THEORIZING AND RESEARCHING WAC
Introduction
14. Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Writing in the Disciplines
Michael Carter
15. From Cultural Criticism to Disciplinary Participation: Living with Powerful Words
Charles Bazerman
16. Strangers in Academia: The Experiences of Faculty and ESL Students Across the Curriculum
Vivian Zamel

17. “As You're Writing, You Have These Epiphanies”: What College Students Say About Writing and Learning in Their Majors
Thomas L. Hilgers, Edna Lardizabal Hussey, and Monica Stitt-Bergh
18. The Novice as Expert: Writing the Freshman Year
Nancy Sommers and Laura Saltz
19. Innovation Across the Curriculum: Three Case Studies in Teaching Science and Engineering Communication

Jennifer L. Craig, Neal Lerner, and Mya Poe

Part Four EXPANDING THE LOCUS OF WAC
Introduction
community colleges
20. Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Centers in Two-Year College English Programs
Leslie Roberts
writing centers
21. Rethinking the WAC/Writing Center Connection
Michael A. Pemberton
linked courses/learning communities
22. Why Is Being Interdisciplinary So Very Hard to Do?:.Thoughts on the Perils and Promise of Interdisciplinary Pedagogy
Rebecca S. Nowacek
communication across the curriculum
23. Teaching and Learning a Multimodal Genre in a Psychology Class
Chris M. Anson, Deanna P. Dannels, and Karen St. Clair
electronic communication across the curriculum
24. Notes on the Evolution of Network Support for Writing Across the Curriculum
Mike Palmquist

esl
25. Beyond the L2 Metaphor: Towards a Mutually Transformative Model of ESL/WAC Collaboration
Paul Kei Matsuda and Jeffrey Jablonski
international wac
26. Exploring Notions of Genre in “Academic Literacies” and “Writing Across the Curriculum”: Approaches Across Countries and Contexts
David R. Russell, Mary Lea, Jan Parker, Brian Street, and Tiane Donahue

Part Five ASSESSING WAC
Introduction
27. Assessing Writing in Cross-Curricular Programs: Determining the Locus of Activity
Chris M. Anson
28. Merging a Culture of Writing with a Culture of Assessment: Embedded, Discipline-Based Writing
Assessment
Terry Myers Zawacki and Karen M. Gentemann
29. The Writer's Personal Profi le: Student Self-Assessment and Goal Setting at Start of Term
Tracy Ann Robinson and Vicki Tolar Burton
30. From Conduit to Consumer: The Role of WAC Faculty in WAC Assessment
Barbara E. Walvoord
31. WAC Program Vulnerability and What to Do About It: An Update and Brief Bibliographic Essay
Martha Townsend

Selected readings and resources
About the editors
Index