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 20, 2019
- Creative Techniques Across the Curriculum
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Details on a training session to the Jain Heritage School Teachers on Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
- May 10, 2019
- May 2019 WAC-GO Newsletter Released
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WAC-GO Executive Committee has released the May 2019 WAC-GO Newsletter.
- May 8, 2019
- Writing Spaces Seeks Assistant Editors
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Writing Spaces, an open textbook for college-level writing courses, is hiring several Assistant Editors (including Copyeditors, Social Media Manager, and a Web Editor) to help produce annual volumes of their open access textbook series.
- May 8, 2019
- Exploring Roman Culture Across the Curriculum
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Elementary level students explore Roman culture with writing across the curriculum.
- April 30, 2019
- Proceedings of the 2018 Computers and Writing Annual Conference Published
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The second edited proceedings of the annual Computers & Writing Conference includes presentations from the 2018 conference.
- April 22, 2019
- Elementary Students VIsualizing and Communicating about Math
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At this elementary school, students visualize math so that they’re able to communicate their thinking behind an answer
- April 8, 2019
- ATD Publishes Special Issue on Contemplative Writing
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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
- April 5, 2019
- Webster Grove HS Pairs Printmaking & Artist Statements
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Webster Grove High School Pairs Printmaking and Artist Statements in a writing across the curriculum project.
- April 5, 2019
- 2020 Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference Call for Proposals
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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.
- April 4, 2019
- Call for Proposals for the 4th Biennial Rhetoric of Health Medicine Symposium
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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.