The WAC Clearinghouse, in partnership with the International Network of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs, publishes open-access journals, books, and other resources for teachers who use writing in their courses.
The Clearinghouse offers open-access, scholarly books, including original monographs and edited collections. To date, we have published more than 80 books. Visit our books main page or view one of our book series.
The Clearinghouse publishes, hosts, or provides access to the archives for seven refereed, open-access journals.
Our peer-reviewed resources support the use of writing in courses across the disciplines.
The Network is an informal community of teachers, researchers, and institutions with shared interests in WAC.
NEWACC supports research-based WAC practices, program development, and assessment.
CompPile is the leading bibliographic database in composition studies, providing listings of work published in composition and rhetoric since 1939.
REx (the Research Exchange) supports scholars who seek mentoring and a public forum for sharing their work. This peer-reviewed site is sponsored by the WAC Clearinghouse and CompPile.
The Consortium on Graduate Communication is an international association whose members provide professional development in written, oral, and multimodal communication to students before and during their (post-)graduate academic and professional programs. CGC members work with graduate students in their first and second/additional languages.
Bedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition provides access in archival form to teaching tips and observations on teaching and learning created by leading scholars, authors, and editors.
Writing Programs Worldwide is an open-access platform for teachers and scholars to talk about individual or departmental initiatives that assist how writing is taught and learned in their locales. It grows out of the same team and project that brought us the Perspectives on Writing collection, Writing Programs Worldwide.
Base Internacional Bibliográfica Sobre Lectura y Escritura ("International Database of Reading and Writing") is a searchable database of publications on reading and writing in higher education in Spanish-speaking countries. Learn more at our information page for the database.
This collection houses high-quality reproductions of materials that Professor Schultz gathered during her 26-year career at the University of Cincinnati. With 257 entries representing the period from 1785 to 1916, it includes rhetoric textbooks for college students, picture books for early primary school students, and more than 100 grammar handbooks. It is available in both digital and print formats (for access to the physical archive, please contact Russel Durst at russel.durst@uc.edu) Visit the archive ...
Asao B. Inoue's book, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future, is the winner of the 2017 CCCC Outstanding Book Award. This is Dr. Inoue's second award for outstanding book from CCCC. Read the book in PDF format or download it in PDF or ePub formats for free.
More than 80 books. Seven journals. Please join us in celebrating 20 years of open-access publishing on the Clearinghouse. Learn more about the successful conclusion of the Sustainable Publishing Initiative's first project, the 25 Collective. Learn more ...
The INWAC Board of Consultants invites you to take part in a conversation on the future of WAC. The Board has been discussing whether it is time to form a national organization for WAC, an organization that applies for 501(c) status and thus has elected positions, a budget, a mission statement, and shared goals. The Board initiated this conversation at a 2016 IWAC Conference meeting for stakeholders from WAC groups (i.e. the biennial WAC conference, WAC Clearinghouse, WAC-affiliated journals, etc.) and followed up with a survey and meeting at the 2017 CCCC in Portland. The Board welcomes the broader WAC and Writing Studies community to contribute to this conversation by offering comments. Their goal is to be as inclusive as possible, and for any resulting organization to be representative of a variety of perspectives. A working group will be discussing the necessary details to form a non-profit organization. If you would like to be part of this conversation, please contact one of the INWAC co-chairs: Michelle Cox, Jeff Galin, Anne Geller, or Dan Melzer.
For contact information, visit the INWAC page on this site.
The Consortium on Graduate Communication will host its Summer Institute June 7-10, 2017, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, USA. The theme of the institute is "Works in Progress: Supporting Graduate Communication Skills for Academic and Professional Contexts." Learn More ...
The Clearinghouse is pleased to announce the availablility of the archival site for Bedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition, a multivocal weblog featuring leading scholars, authors, and editors. The original Bedford Bits blog was created by Bedford/St. Martin's to feature teaching tips from a range of contributors -- Bedford/St. Martin's authors, faculty from a number of institutions, adjuncts, and graduate students.Learn More ...
The Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication has endorsed the International Network of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs statement of WAC principles and practices. View the Statement ...
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2018 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. The conference will be held at Auburn University on June 4-6, 2018. The deadline for submission is August 1, 2017.
The conference theme, "Making Connections," emphasizes how WAC fosters connections: within and across institutions and programs, between people and positions, and among ideas and practices. In a historical moment when divisiveness, rancor, and disconnection are so pervasive on the national and international stage, our theme aims to underscore the power of collaboration, integration, inclusion, and the search for common ground. The conference organizers invite participants to remember together why we chose—and continue choosing—our work, and then to envision more connected futures. View the Call for Proposals ...
The conference directors invite reviewers for conference proposals. Reviewers will be assigned no more than 6 proposals and given 2 weeks to complete their reviews. Please note that participating in IWAC 2018 as a reviewer does not guarantee your acceptance as a presenter. All proposals will be evaluated in a blind review by the criteria outlined in the submission process. Learn More ...
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