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 18, 2022
- News from CompPile
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CompPile, a searchable online inventory of published scholarship in post-secondary composition and rhetoric from 1939 to the present, adds recent issues to the database and invites suggestions for resources to add to the collection.
- April 13, 2022
- Writing about Shadows
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Students at Longbranch Elementary in Midlothian, Texas, write about experiments and observations of shadows.
- April 12, 2022
- Save Time Responding to Writing
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The Ferris State University WAC Program offers tips on how teachers can save time as they respond to student writing.
- April 8, 2022
- Contribute Materials to the WAC Repository
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Publish WAC Administration or Pedagogy Artifacts with Critical Reflection, WAC Program Profiles, and WAC Testimonies in the new WAC Repository.
- April 7, 2022
- Exploring Desert Food Chains with WAC
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First grade students write about desert food chains at Glenn Elementary in San Antonio, Texas.
- April 5, 2022
- Writing about Brass Instruments at Lakeridge Elementary
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Kindergarteners learn about the brass family of musical instruments as they write across the curriculum.
- April 4, 2022
- Writing in the Reading Classroom in Frisco, Texas
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Allen Elementary students write about what they are reading.
- 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.