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

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On April 5th, WAC will host its fifth Writing Across Institutions Conference.  Below is the tentative agenda for the conference:

Tentative WAI Agenda, April 5, 2013 
Price Lake, Plemmons Student Union

9:30 Welcome and Intros 
10-11:30   Teaching Developmental Writing Workshop with Kim Gunter, Composition Director, Appalachian
11:30-12  Reverse Transfer with Jane Rex of Enrollment Management, Appalachian

LUNCH

12:30-1: 15  Business and Entrepreneurship Report on Writing, Lisa Redman
1 :15-1:45 Learning Communities with Elizabeth West, Appalachian, and Elizabeth West, CPCC  
1:45-2 :15  Update on ENG 2001 and second course discussion with Georgia Rhoades and Dennis Bohr, Appalachian

BREAK

2:30- 3:30 Panel on Curricular Reform with Beth Casey and James Casey, Beaufort CC; Kelly Terzaken, Coastal CC; and Diana Campbell, Forsyth CC
3:30-4 Assessment Panel with Alusow Hart, Appalachian; Ess, Coastal; and Mitchell, Wilkes
4-5  Handling the Paper Load with Rountree, West, Bohr, and Alusow Hart, Appalachian

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WAC sponsors many events for the faculty and community. The 5th annual Writing Across Institutions Conference will be held April 5 from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. in the Price Lake Room of the Plemmons Student Center on ASU's campus.  To register, please visit http://wac.appstate.edu/faculty-resources/workshop-registration.  We'll send out an agenda and invitation soon; if you have questions please email Travis Rountree (rountreeta@appstate.edu) or Georgia Rhoades (rhoadesgd@appstate.edu): for this and other events, see our 2013 calendar here.

At the Student for Success in Writing Conference in Savannah on February 8, 2013, Appalachian's WAC Program presented a workshop on Strategies for Handling the Paper Load.  Resources we offered included these strategies:

• Guts, Bones, and Skin from Pat Belanoff
• Cover letters and cover sheets
• Peer group revision strategies
• Rubrics
• Portfolio teaching and editing

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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. Please click here for the link to the article.

• 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.

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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, see http://www.ncte.org/cccc/awards/writingprogramcert.

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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.

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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.