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THE WAC JOURNAL is a national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Published by Clemson University, Parlor Press, and the WAC Clearinghouse, THE WAC JOURNAL is an annual collection of articles by educators about their WAC ideas and WAC experiences. It is a journal of practical ideas and pertinent theory.

CONTENTS of VOLUME 27 (2016): ARTICLES: Jill Gladstein: A Data-Driven Researcher by Carol Rutz Engaging the Skeptics: Threshold Concepts, Metadisciplinary Writing, and the Aspirations of General Education by Christopher Basgier Quantitative Genre Analysis of...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 11.1 (Fall 2016) The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it...

HowMaster: The Writer’s Guide to Beautiful Word Crafting shows how effective writing happens. Author Linda M. Gigliotti draws from years of practice as a private writing tutor in the guidebook that teaches writers how to format visceral writing that pulls readers into their book. She explains with instruction and samples of published works how to craft writing that come to life in the reader's mind. 



Gigliotti starts with a section about setting up to write and goes on to discuss where and how to find ideas, how to write from prompts and journal entries, and the...

The goal of this book is simple: Help you write faster and at a higher quality.

Let's face it, if you're in business for yourself--a speaker or trainer, coach or consultant or if you realize the great need for large quantities of fantastic content fast--then you need to know how to speed write.

It goes without saying that if you're a writer or publisher and you can already crank out content at a brisk clip, even a small increase in production can give you a slight edge. Add a percentage point more production with one tactic here and another percentage point with...

Translingualism perceives the boundaries between languages as unstable and permeable; this creates a complex challenge for writing pedagogy. Writers shift actively among rhetorical strategies from multiple languages, sometimes importing lexical or discoursal tropes from one language into another to introduce an effect, solve a problem, or construct an identity. How to accommodate this reality while answering the charge to teach the conventions of one language can be a vexing problem for teachers. Crossing Divides offers diverse perspectives from leading scholars on the design and...

GOT STUCK? As a writer, you know stuckness when you see it. And feel it. And, possibly, fear it. You may feel shame. The sense that you're alone with this struggle. Maybe the worst part is not knowing what to do now. Especially after you've tried so many fixes that didn't work.

You're not alone. And feeling stuck doesn't need to be permanent. In fact, the stuckness itself can be a key to discovering what to do next. A M Carley's new book introduces the FLOAT Approach to becoming unstuck: a gentle, stepwise invitation to mindful problem-solving and brainstorming. Your own wisdom gains...

This fifth edition of Critical Thinking by the noted logician Richard L. Epstein is practical, engaging, and easy to teach.  Students enjoy and understand it because it is clear and has hundreds of examples using a cast of characters who reason as we do every day.  More than 1,000 exercises lead students to be able to reason well in their courses and their lives.  Essay writing lessons and visual writing lessons, using the cast of characters, teach students that first comes clear thinking and then comes clear writing.  A...

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.

At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead...

Writing Program Architecture offers an unprecedented abundance of information concerning the significant material, logistical, and rhetorical features of writing programs. Presenting the realities of thirty diverse and award-winning programs, contributors to the volume describe reporting lines, funding sources, jurisdictions, curricula, and other critical programmatic matters and provide insight into their program histories, politics, and philosophies.

Each chapter opens with a program snapshot that includes summary demographic and historical information and then addresses the...

The contributors offer methodologies, techniques, and suggestions for research that move beyond decontextualized guides to grapple with the messiness of research-in-process, as...

Writing Program Administration
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven

Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the 1989 Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing and its relation to the changing nature of work in composition. Stemming from an investigative project to strengthen the Statement with data culled from national reports on labor conditions, Labored draws on the expertise of scholars whose research agendas and lived experiences...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 11.2 (Spring 2017) The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it...