The WAC JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.37514/wac-j.2022.33.1.01
Mandy Olejnik, E. Wardle, J. Maher, William S. Chesher, Angela Glotfelter
{"title":"Working With Faculty Partners to Change Conceptions of Writing Beyond University Walls","authors":"Mandy Olejnik, E. Wardle, J. Maher, William S. Chesher, Angela Glotfelter","doi":"10.37514/wac-j.2022.33.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/wac-j.2022.33.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs are well-positioned to change not only faculty (and student) conceptions around writing within the university, but also to collaborate with disciplinary faculty who have crossed conceptual thresholds about writing and work together with them to advocate for changed conceptions of writing beyond the university. Faculty can and do change their conceptions around writing when engaging in WAC programming that is intentionally designed around conceptual and systemic change. Similar methods for change-focused work can also be used beyond the university","PeriodicalId":210468,"journal":{"name":"The WAC Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116247246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The WAC JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.37514/wac-j.2022.33.1.05
Brian Gogan, Lisa R Singleterry, Susan L. Caulfield, Moline Mallamo
{"title":"Writing Assignment Prompts Across the Curriculum: Using the DAPOE Framework for Improved Teaching and Aggregable Research","authors":"Brian Gogan, Lisa R Singleterry, Susan L. Caulfield, Moline Mallamo","doi":"10.37514/wac-j.2022.33.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/wac-j.2022.33.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"This article advances the DAPOE (directions, audience, purpose, objectives, and evaluation) framework to describe the genre of the formal writing assignment prompt and to assist genre uptake by students and teachers alike. To support our endorsement of this framework, we (1) ground our discussion of the writing assignment prompt in rhetorical genre theory; (2) define the five core components of the DAPOE framework; (3) synthesize the extant research on the formal writing assignment prompt; (4) demonstrate how this research-derived framework might be used as a research lens to analyze the effectiveness of writing assignment prompts across the curriculum; and, (5) discuss the implications of our framework and our research on writing across the curriculum initiatives.","PeriodicalId":210468,"journal":{"name":"The WAC Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132798746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The WAC JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.37514/wac-j.2022.32.1.04
Letizia M. Guglielmo
{"title":"Feminist Rhetorics in Writing Across the Curriculum: Supporting Students as Agents of Change","authors":"Letizia M. Guglielmo","doi":"10.37514/wac-j.2022.32.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/wac-j.2022.32.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210468,"journal":{"name":"The WAC Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128026980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The WAC JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.37514/WAC-J.2020.31.1.05
C. Bushnell
{"title":"Carol Rutz: Conversations about Writing in WAC and Beyond","authors":"C. Bushnell","doi":"10.37514/WAC-J.2020.31.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/WAC-J.2020.31.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210468,"journal":{"name":"The WAC Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127579423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The WAC JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.37514/wac-j.2022.33.1.06
Hannah Ringler
{"title":"Review: Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities","authors":"Hannah Ringler","doi":"10.37514/wac-j.2022.33.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/wac-j.2022.33.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210468,"journal":{"name":"The WAC Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129359130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The WAC JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.37514/wac-j.2022.32.1.05
E. Miller
{"title":"�A long-lasting positive experience� from a Short-term Commitment: The Power of the WAC TA Fellow Role for Disciplinary TAs","authors":"E. Miller","doi":"10.37514/wac-j.2022.32.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/wac-j.2022.32.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"While teaching assistants (TAs) often play a crucial role in teaching writ-ing-intensive courses and often go on into faculty careers, a relatively small body of research has interrogated the ways that WAC/WID programs may effectively train and support disciplinary TAs. In this essay, we draw on surveys and interviews with former WAC TA Fellows—disciplinary TAs who helped to lead training for new TAs teaching writing-intensive courses at a large research university. We offer this close analysis of the WAC TA Fellow role as one relatively short-term and small-scale model with, we find, significant and ongoing benefits for supporting disciplinary TAs as emerging professionals and as future WAC allies. first provide an overview of the WAC TA Fellow program that we are studying in this essay; we then review literature from WAC and from the scholarship of teaching and learning regarding the needs and options for TA training related to pedagogy—revealing gaps around empirical evidence for the effectiveness of various training models and a growing interest in ways to engage TAs in leadership roles around teaching training. We then lay out our survey and interview-based research designed to contribute to these knowledge gaps. Finally, we analyze those survey and interview responses (which form a rich data set: thirty-three former TAs","PeriodicalId":210468,"journal":{"name":"The WAC Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122367746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The WAC JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.37514/wac-j.2022.32.1.03
Carol Rutz
{"title":"Fearlessness, Sustainability, and Adaptability via WAC in a Small School","authors":"Carol Rutz","doi":"10.37514/wac-j.2022.32.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/wac-j.2022.32.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210468,"journal":{"name":"The WAC Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124731220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The WAC JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.37514/wac-j.2019.30.1.04
Thomas Polk
{"title":"The Material Contexts of Writing Assignment Design","authors":"Thomas Polk","doi":"10.37514/wac-j.2019.30.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/wac-j.2019.30.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarship on assignment design has largely concerned itself with the difficulty of designing effective writing assignments. While this research offers practical advice for instructors, it often overlooks important contextual factors that influence how writing assignments materialize. This research begins the work of contextualizing assignment design by reporting on interviews conducted with thirty-three faculty members who teach writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at George Mason University. Interviews prompted participants to describe the most pressing decisions they made while designing their assignments. Participants reported decisions related to the following five categories: promoting student agency, defining the writing task, scaffolding the process, clarifying communications, and navigating the institution. Findings from this study reveal that faculty decisions are frequently motivated by pedagogical intentions; however, this research also reveals that institutional and personal motivations exercise significant influence on decision-making.","PeriodicalId":210468,"journal":{"name":"The WAC Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121391637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The WAC JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.37514/wac-j.2019.30.1.05
Amy Cicchino
{"title":"Review: Oral Communication in the Disciplines: A Resource for Teacher Development and Training","authors":"Amy Cicchino","doi":"10.37514/wac-j.2019.30.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/wac-j.2019.30.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210468,"journal":{"name":"The WAC Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132348627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}