Welcome to The WAC Journal, a national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum, published by Plymouth State University. The WAC Journal is an annual collection of articles by educators about their WAC ideas and WAC experiences. It is a journal of practical ideas and pertinent theory. We welcome submissions from all WAC scholars.

The WAC Journal is available in print and online versions. To obtain a printed volume of the journal, please view our subscription information. To view the online version, please follow the links below and to the right.

Current Issue *

Volume 20, November 2009

This volume is available in whole and in part in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF). To obtain Adobe's Acrobat Reader, please follow the link to the right.

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Interview: Richard H. Haswell: A Conversation with an Empirical Romanticist, Carol Rutz, Carleton College

Eliminating Lab Reports: A Rhetorical Approach for Teaching the Scientific Paper in Sophomore Organic Chemistry, Peter J. Alaimo, John C. Bean, Joseph M. Langenhan, and Larry Nichols, Seattle University

WAC/WID in the Next America: Redefining Professional Identity in the Age of the Multilingual Majority, Jonathan Hall, York College, CUNY

Electronic Plagiarism Checkers: Barriers to Developing an Academic Voice, Kathleen Gillis, Susan Lang, Monica Norris, and Laura Palmer, Texas Tech University

Finding a Voice: Reconciling Discourses in Student Work, Gordon Fraser, University of Connecticut

Math and Metaphor: Using Poetry to Teach College Mathematics, Patrick Bahls, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Writing in the Disciplines: America’s Assimilation of the Work of Scottish "Pedagogic" George Jardine, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Georgia State University

Making it Messy: A Review of Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by Maja Wilson, Meg J. Petersen, Plymouth State University

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^* Volumes 1 through 11 of The WAC Journal were published as a campus journal entitled The Plymouth State University Journal on Writing Across the Curriculum. Volume 12 served as a transitional volume, combining articles written by Plymouth State University faculty with scholars from other institutions. Volume 13 served as the first fully national edition of the journal and bears the new title of the journal.

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