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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

University of Alberta

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

Local

http://www.universityaffairs.ca/why-students-struggle-with-writing.aspx

http://www.universityaffairs.ca/five-strategies-to-improve-writing-in-your-courses.aspx

  • Conversations about writing
  • WAC Workshops
  • WAC 999: A Short Course on Writing
  • CTL workshops on writing and critical thinking
  • WAC listserv primarily for U of Alberta
  • Consultations with individual instructors

CASDW 2014

Writing assignments and

curricular change

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sourcebooks

The Argument for Local WAC Resources

reflective inquiry

workshop

service

discipline-

based

research

WAC-Produced Materials

Jablonski's Typology of Consultancy Models

Newsletters

Arguments for Local WAC Resources

  • honoring and showcasing
  • persuading and inspiring colleagues
  • building local relationships
  • listening and collaborating
  • responding to individual needs and opportunities

Website

Consultations with faculty

Interactive Current Approaches at UW-Madison

Training and workshops for faculty and TAs

Undergraduate Writing Fellows working with faculty and student-writers in writing-intensive courses across the university

CCCC 2014

Genre by numbers

CCCC 2015

Rick and Reward

Overview

  • Introduction
  • Current strategies for WAC resources at our institutions
  • Guided discussion
  • The argument for global, the argument for local
  • Guided discussion

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

Global

Local

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

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