WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Writing across the curriculum WAC is a movement within contemporary composition studies that concerns itself with writing in classes beyond composition, literature, and other English courses. According to a comprehensive survey performed in , approximately half of American See more. David Russell traces the history of WAC in the United States to the s, the emergence of professional disciplines, and the new need for college-level instruction in writing. Prior to this era, college students were See more. WAC may exist as a formal program housed in or attached to an English department, a formal program as a free-standing unit See more. P.A. Ramsay, in his paper Writing across the curriculum Integrating discourse communities in the academy, found that students that See more. WAC efforts are usually driven principally by one of two theories writing to learn or on learning to write in disciplinary discourses, sometimes also called writing in the disciplines. Though both may be used together, one of the two the
