News, Events, and Calls

Across the Disciplines has published Volume 16, Issue 1 as a special issue on contemplative writing. "Contemplative Writing Across the Disciplines," guest edited by Marlowe Miller and Karolyn Kinane, is available on the home page of Across the Disciplines: https://wac.colostate.edu/atd

Webster Grove High School Pairs Printmaking and Artist Statements in a writing across the curriculum project. 

The 2019 Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) conference will be held from October 10-12 at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Proposals are due by 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, May 6, 2019.

Proposals for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) Symposium, to be held September 5-6, 2019 in Orlando, Florida, are due April 10.  Potential categories, submission criteria, and instructions are available on the RHM website.

We are looking for proposals for this workshop and hopefully a future collection of essays on WAC and Health Care programs for CCCC 2020, Milwaukee.  If accepted the workshop will be requested in a Wednesday afternoon slot before the conference.

The presentation "Fifty Years of WAC: Where have we been? Where are we going?" was presented at the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Pittsburgh.

Students analyze quotations to increase understanding, as shown in the related image.

Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline, by Derek N. Mueller, has been selected as winner of the 2019 Research Impact Award by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. The award is presented annually to "the empirical research publication in the previous two years that most advances the mission of the organization or the needs of the profession." Mueller's book appears in the #writing series, edited by Cheryl E. Ball. Mueller's book is the first to be published in the series.