Writing Across the Curriculum
The Writing Across the Curriculum Program offers support for faculty teaching writing and using writing as a learning tool at all levels of education at Appalachian. Housed in University College, WAC works closely with General Education, the Composition and Rhetoric Program, the Writing Center, and the First Year Seminar Program to offer consultations in course and assignment design and response and evaluation to writing in all classrooms. We also offer writing workshops and consultations with many other departments and programs across campus. For a workshop or consultation with your program please contact Georgia Rhoades at rhoadesgd@appstate.edu
WAC sponsors many events for the faculty and community. We will sponsor the 4th Writing Across Institutions Conference on April 13 and 14: for this and other events, see our 2012 calendar here.
We are proud to announce that Appalachian's writing programs--Writing Across the Curriculum, the University Writing Center, and Composition--have been awarded the Certificate of Excellence by Conference on College Composition and Communication, which will be presented at the CCCC conference in St. Louis in March. This award program has recognized outstanding writing programs since 2004: other North Carolina winners are Duke and North Carolina State. Appalachian's vertical writing model and program of faculty development for the teaching of writing were cited as reasons for the award. For more information about the award, seehttp://www.ncte.org/cccc/awards/writingprogramcert.
Composition and Rhetoric scholar, Nedra Reynolds, mentions us in her blog for Bedford/St. Martins! Please click here to see the blog.
The following video, WAC Presents: A Guide for Student Writing at ASU explains the vertical writing model of General Education for undergraduate students at Appalachian. Funded by University College, where WAC is housed, and filmed in the summer of 2010 by Justin Reid with direction and production by Dennis J. Bohr and Travis Rountree, the film explains the connections between courses in Composition and Writing in the Disciplines, with original music by Dave Haney and Lisa Baldwin. Please click here for a transcription of the film.
Vertical Writing Model
Web Resources
- Writing Across the Curriculum is a unit within Appalachian’s University College. University College consists of the university’s integrated general education curriculum, academic support services, residential learning communities, interdisciplinary degree programs and co-curricular programming – all designed to support the work of students both inside and outside of the classroom.
Contact Us
For information about the Writing Across the Curriculum Program please contact Georgia Rhoades at (828) 262-2075 or e-mail at rhoadesgd@appstate.edu.
Writing Across the Curriculum Program
Appalachian State University
1107 Anne Belk Hall
ASU Box 32033
Boone, NC 28608-2033
(828) 262-2075 (office)
(828) 262-2032 (fax)
