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.
- April 1, 2022
- Landmark Textbook Writing in the Arts and Sciences Re-released
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Writing in the Arts and Sciences, one of the first WAC textbooks, re-released in open-access format in by the WAC Clearinghouse.
- March 31, 2022
- Moore Elementary Teachers Explore Opinion Writing
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Moore Elementary Teachers explore how to use persuasive writing and opinion writing across the curriculum.
- March 30, 2022
- Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines Re-released
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Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life is re-released by the WAC Clearinghouse.
- March 28, 2022
- St. Francis de Sales Students Write in PE
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Students write about experimentation in their PE class.
- March 26, 2022
- Explore WAC/WID at the Writing-Enriched Curriculum Conference
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Registration is open for the virtual 2022 WEC Institute.
- March 23, 2022
- Finch Kindergarten Students Focus on Writing about Math
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Texas kindergarten students write about geometric shapes.
- March 18, 2022
- Fractions, Pizza, and WAC!
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Students learn about fractions with pizza slices and writing across the curriculum.
- March 17, 2022
- Grounded Literacies in a Transnational WAC/WID Ecology
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New book draws from WAC/WID, second language writing, rhetoric and composition, and scholarship on English teaching and learning in South Korea to describe the ways writing as a privileged literate activity shapes and is shaped by the development of one university’s transnational campuses.
- March 16, 2022
- WAC Clearinghouse/AWAC Joint Statement on Support for Ukraine
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The WAC Clearinghouse and the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum have issued a joint statement on support for Ukraine.
- March 16, 2022
- New Book Focuses on User Experience as Innovative Academic Practice
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User Experience as Innovative Academic Practice provides case studies from various points of instruction and curricular design to illustrate how a user experience (UX) methodology provides invaluable insight into understanding and including student-users.