News, Events, and Calls
- Traci Gardner, News Editor
We publish news from the WAC and writing communities. Visit to catch up on upcoming conferences, see calls for proposals, notices of newly published books and other scholarly projects, stories of WAC programs and practitioners in the news. If you have WAC news you want to share, please send a note to WACClearinghouseNews@gmail.com.
- May 6, 2021
- Meeting the Challenges of Workplace English Communication in the 21st Century
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The first special issue of The Journal of Writing Analytics (Volume 5), “Meeting the Challenges of Workplace English Communication in the 21st Century,” edited by María Elena Oliveri, David H. Slomp, Norbert Elliot, and André A. Rupp has been published.
- April 19, 2021
- EAC Registration is Open
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Registration is open for the 3rd International Conference on English Across the Curriculum online from 20-22 May. Registration is completely free of charge. The organizers write that they have an exciting schedule of presentations and discussions on May 20th and 21st and workshops on May 22nd.
- March 15, 2021
- Contribute to the WAC Repository
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The Association for Writing across the Curriculum and the WAC Clearinghouse invite you to contribute to the WAC Repository, a digital collection of WAC resources pertaining to WAC pedagogy and administration hosted on the WAC Clearinghouse website.
- January 19, 2021
- Statements Released on January 6th Violence at the Capitol
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The WAC Clearinghouse endorses statements issued by the Council of Writing Program Administrators and the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
- December 6, 2020
- WAC Awards Announced
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The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and the WAC Clearinghouse are seeking nominations for awards that recognize contributions to the WAC community through scholarship and achievements. Awardees will be recognized at the upcoming International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC) in August 2021.
- November 9, 2020
- Call for Proposals: 3rd EAC Conference
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Proposals are now being accepted for the 3rd International Conference on English Across the Curriculum (EAC), which is co-organized by a cross-institutional team drawn from leading universities in Hong Kong. The EAC 2021 Conference will be held online from 20-21 May 2021.
- August 28, 2020
- Watch "Discussion on Writing Across the Curriculum"
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Middle East-North Africa Writing Centers Alliance (MENAWCA) recently hosted a COVID-19 Discussion Series session on WAC.
- August 26, 2020
- New Book on Transient Literacies in Action
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Transient Literacies in Action: Composing with the Mobile Surround, by Stacey Pigg, draws on qualitative fieldwork across a coffeehouse and learning commons to trace how 22 writers practice transient literacies with their phones and laptops while engaging in composing activities that range from seminar papers to amateur video game production.
- August 20, 2020
- Join an AWAC Writing Group
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The AWAC Research and Publications Committee has announced a new initiative to match interested members together into writing groups.
- August 18, 2020
- New Book on Lifespan Writing Research
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Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence, edited by Ryan J. Dippre and Talinn Phillips, builds on the three themes that emerged from the 2018 inaugural lifespan writing conference—identity, society, and theory—to further the study of writing through the lifespan.