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 all departments and programs across campus as well as with other schools (we have offered WAC workshops at East Carolina University, Bakersfield Community College (CA), Craven Community College, Coastal Community College, Wilkes Community College, and Mars Hill College.  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 sponsored the 4th Writing Across Institutions Conference on April 13 and 14: for this and other events, see our 2012 calendar here.

Two WAC consultants are being recognized this year by General Education and University College.

•  Sherry Alusow Hart, who is our director of assessment in WAC,  has won the NTT Faculty Award for Excellence in General Education Teaching,
• Travis Rountree, who manages our website and is our community college liaison, will receive the University College Excellence in Community Engagement Award. 

We are very proud of these two for this recognition as well as for their excellent work in WAC and English.

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 September 14, 2011 blog post 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.