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.
- 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.
- March 15, 2022
- Community is the Way Examines Social Justice and Community Partnerships
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New, open-access field guide, Community is the Way: Engaged Writing and Designing for Transformative Change, offers a vision for enacting social justice with community partners.
- March 14, 2022
- Celebrating 25 Phenomenal Years of WAC Clearinghouse
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March 14 is the 25th anniversary of the founding of the WAC Clearinghouse.
- March 5, 2022
- WAC at St. Phillips Southport This Week
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Sixth-grade students write about the Eucharist in their reports.
- March 3, 2022
- Exemplary WAC Program Award Nominations Sought
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Nominate your program for the Exemplary WAC Program Awards. Nominations are due by April 15, 2022.
- March 2, 2022
- Writing about Ancient Egypt
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Byfleet Primary students are writing across the curriculum while studying ancient Egypt.
- March 1, 2022
- Submit Your Activities & Assignments to the Archive @ Writing Spaces
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Writing Studies, the open textbook series for undergraduate composition, seeks proposals for activities and assignments to add to the text’s archive.
- February 25, 2022
- Elementary Students Focus on WAC in Science
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Elementary students complete quick writes and then a think-pair-share activity.
- February 24, 2022
- Long Branch Elementary Students Write about Weather
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Long Branch Elementary students are writing across the curriculum as they learn about weather.
- February 23, 2022
- Collaborative Science Notes as Active Learning in WAC
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Students examine evolution and natural selection as they write collaborative science notes.