Welcome to the WAC Clearinghouse

Supporting Scholarly Exchange About Communication Across the Disciplines

Welcome to the WAC Clearinghouse. We are an open-access publishing collaborative that draws on the contributions of more than 200 scholars from six continents. Our members serve in editorial roles ranging from journal and book series editors and editorial staff members to peer-reviewers and editorial board members. We publish articles and books of interest to both the writing-across-the-curriculum community and the larger writing studies community. We support research on the use of writing to support learning and teaching. And we provide a wide range of web-based resources for instructors who wish to use writing in their courses.

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2,053
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117,010
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million downloads

Explore the Clearinghouse

To view our publications, use the CompPile database, and access resources, please use the following links.

Books: The Clearinghouse offers more than 200 open-access, scholarly books, including original monographs and edited collections. View our books.
Journals: The Clearinghouse publishes, hosts, or provides access to the archives of more than 20 refereed, open-access journals. View our journals.
CompPile: The leading database in the field of writing studies, CompPile allows ready reference to writing studies scholarship from 1939 to the present. View CompPile.
Resources: View the WAC Repository for peer-reviewed and crowd-sourced resources that support the use of writing in courses across the disciplines.
Community: Learn about the many organizations and groups, that comprise the WAC community.
News: Catch up on the latest news in the WAC and writing studies communities.
WAC Awards: The Clearinghouse and the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum sponsor awards for WAC scholarship, program development, and achievements.
Contributors: More than 2900 individuals have contributed work in the open-access books and journals on this site.

Stay Up to Date

To learn about new Clearinghouse publications, resources, and events, join the WACNews-L email list. To subscribe or unsubscribe (or to do anything else related to managing your subscription to the list), please visit https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wacnews-l.

Support the Clearinghouse

The Clearinghouse relies on a large, distributed network of colleagues who work together to publish our books and journals in open-access formats. If you would like to support these efforts, please view options for one-time and sustaining donations as well as institutional and organizational sponsorships.

View Related Projects

The Clearinghouse is pleased to support the following projects.

Bale: An Annotated Bibliography of Narrative and Storywork
https://bale.colostate.edu/

Bale is a collaborative, living annotated bibliography designed to bring together voices and texts across storytelling scholarship in and beyond the field of rhetoric, composition, and writing studies. The editors of this open-access project encourage a wide range of users and contributors—from students to scholars to folks simply interested in these topics.
  First-Year Composition Archive
https://fyca.colostate.edu/

The First-Year Composition Archive serves as a resource for scholars and teachers who seek to learn more about trends in first-year writing, the history of the discipline, teaching resources, pedagogical developments, and much more. The editorial team hopes to receive syllabi, assignments, and course materials from your earliest years in the profession to your current courses. They encourage faculty to use the archive's resources to assist in first-year composition course design, research projects on the teaching of writing, and helping writers across the curriculum.