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Communication:
Email listerv for WAC,
twitter account
WAC website
App development:
Thesis statement generator
GwRIT: The Game of Writing
Quickguides:
WAC documents on web
Articles in national magazine:
Why Students Struggle with Writing
Entrance testing is not the answer
Five strategies to improve student writing in your courses
International connections:
Association for Academic Language and Learning (Australia)
International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research (ISAWR)
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/WAC/Resources/TopicToThesis.html
Association for Academic Language
and Learning 2014
Embedded writing instruction model for WAC rather than WID courses
ISAWR 2014
Haas and Waage, iPad app that provides analytics to writers for feedback
ISAWR 2017
Bogota, Columbia
Writing Programs Worldwide
"build a transnational community"
"identify generalizable trends"
"honor the variety and complexity"
Revenue generation
In the next two FY, we will need to identify ways to generate [external] revenue from our activities.
How will we do that?
App sales
WAC training contracts for other universities
2014 International Writing Studies: Sharing Research and Pedagogies colloquium at Malmö University
EATAW 2015
Tallinn University of Technology
Estonia
The Game of Writing
On online writing environment that uses gamification and analytics to create a rich social environment that motivates players/writers to write more texts, write better texts, and engage in productive writing processes.
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/entrance-testing-is-not-the-answer.aspx
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/why-students-struggle-with-writing.aspx
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/five-strategies-to-improve-writing-in-your-courses.aspx
CASDW 2014
Writing assignments and
curricular change
CCCC 2014
Genre by numbers
CCCC 2015
Rick and Reward
The Role of Local WAC Resources
in Our Global, Networked Age
Roger Graves, University of Alberta
Brad Hughes, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephanie White, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Consultations
Example assignments
Workshop materials
Newsletters
Websites
Quickguides
Apps
WAC Clearinghouse
Listservs
Adobe Connect Workshops
Group tutoring programs
Prezis
MOOCs
GwRIT: The Game of Writing
Writing Commons