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A sample outline for a WAC Workshop:  

Writing Across the Curriculum on a particular campus usually means

• GOOD WRITING IS HIGHLY VALUED in all disciplines

• MANY FACULTY TEACH WRITING appropriate to their courses

• There is focus on WRITING PROCESS as well as writing products

• Students have opportunities in the process for FEEDBACK

• Feedback comes from PEERS, PEER TUTORS, or INSTRUCTOR

• Writers have access to a WRITING CENTER 

3 variables to consider in implementing WAC at a particular institution:

            1. the models available
            2. the climate on the particular campus
            3. the actual definition of a WAC program

WAC Models

·  Writing-intensive courses in many disciplines

• writing a major tool in a particular course

• certain number of such courses required for graduation

·  Linked courses

• “discipline” course linked to a formal writing course

• workable situation if faculty truly collaborate

·  WAC principles stipulated in Freshman Comp or Freshman Seminar

• X words of formal writing

• X words of informal writing

• speech component

• research component

·  WAC workshops ongoing for faculty; no legislated curricular impact