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Toward A Taxonomy of "Small" Genres
Tags: Genre, WAC, Pedagogy, Writing
Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum
Tags: WAC, writing to learn, writing program, scientific writing, higher education, K-12, Pedagogy, history of writing
Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration across Disciplines

Edited by Barbara J. D'Angelo, Sandra Jamieson, Barry Maid, and Janice R. Walker

This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines, offering nuanced and complex perspectives on Information Literacy in the second decade of the 21st century. Taking as a starting point the concerns that prompted the Association of Research Libraries (ACRL) to review the Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education and develop the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2015), the chapters in this collection consider six frameworks.

Tags: research, collaboration, writing program administration, faculty development, WAC
A Minefield of Dreams

Edited by Justin Everett and Cristina Hanganu-Bresch

In A Minefield of Dreams: Triumphs and Travails of Independent Writing Programs, Justin Everett and Cristina Hanganu-Bresch highlight both cautionary tales and stories of resounding success that can inspire and provide paths toward addressing the challenges faced by faculty who lead independent writing programs.

Tags: writing program, reform, self-advocacy, faculty development, WAC
Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer

Edited by Chris M. Anson and Jessie L. Moore

In Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer, Chris Anson and Jessie Moore offer an important new collection about prior learning and transfer theories that asks what writing knowledge should transfer, how we might recognize that transfer, and what the significance is—from a global perspective—of understanding knowledge transformation related to writing. The contributors examine strategies for supporting writers' transfer at key critical transitions.

Tags: secondary education, postsecondary education, first-year composition, identity, WAC, composition studies, transfer
The Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers

By Lisa Emerson

In The Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers, Lisa Emerson offers an important corrective to the view that scientists are "poor writers, unnecessarily opaque, not interested in writing, and in need of remediation." She argues that scientists are among "the most sophisticated and flexible writers in the academy, often writing for a wider range of audiences (their immediate disciplinary peers, peers in adjacent fields, a broad scientific audience, industry, and a range of public audiences including social media) than most other faculty."

Tags: writing in the disciplines, scientific writing, multi-voiced, WAC, STEM
WAC Partnerships Between Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions

Edited by Jacob S. Blumner and Pamela B. Childers

Working with educators at all academic levels involved in WAC partnerships, the authors and editors of this collection demonstrate successful models of collaboration between schools and institutions so others can emulate and promote this type of collaboration. The chapters in this collection describe and reflect on collaborative partnerships among middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities that are designed to prepare students for the kinds of work and civic engagement required to succeed in and contribute to society. 

Tags: community, collaboration, WAC, secondary institution, secondary education, postsecondary institution, postsecondary education, K-12
Working With Academic Literacies

Edited by Theresa Lillis, Kathy Harrington, Mary R. Lea, and Sally Mitchell

The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an "academic literacies" approach in policy and pedagogy. Transformative practice is illustrated through case studies and critical commentaries from teacher-researchers working in a range of higher education contexts—from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, across disciplines, and spanning geopolitical regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cataluña, Finland, France, Ireland, Portugal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Tags: postsecondary institution, Pedagogy, transformative practice, WAC, international
WAC and Second-Language Writers

Edited by Terry Myers Zawacki and Michelle Cox

This edited collection pursues the ambitious goal of including within WAC theory, research, and practice the differing perspectives, educational experiences, and voices of second-language writers. The editors and authors not only report new research but also share a wealth of pedagogical, curricular, and programmatic practices relevant to second-language writers

Tags: culture, international, history of writing, WAC, faculty, multilingual, multi-voiced, TESL, second-language writers, inclusivity
ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios

Edited by Katherine V. Wills and Rich Rice

The contributors to this edited collection address theories and practices advanced by some of the most innovative and active proponents of ePortfolios. Editors Katherine V. Wills and Rich Rice interweave twelve essays that address the ways in which ePortfolios can facilitate sustainable and measureable writing-related student development, assessment and accountability, learning and knowledge transfer, and principles related to universal design for learning, just-in-time support, interaction design, and usability testing.

Tags: technology, portfolios, inclusivity, composition studies, WAC, digital landscape

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