Writing-Enriched Curriculum: A Model for Making and Sustaining Change

To provide a foundational framework for ensuing chapters in this collection, this chapter overviews the genesis and design of the WEC approach and details components of the WEC model developed at the University of Minnesota and adopted in other institutional settings. From its grounding principles and basis in WAC/WID and educational research, to its systems for engaging academic faculty groups in creating, implementing, and assessing locally relevant undergraduate writing plans, the WEC methodology is outlined and substantiated with departmental case studies. Finally, this chapter identifies six essential features of the WEC model and considers ways in which these features represent shifts from established WAC/WID programming.