What is the definition of WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum)?
• Started as means of taking what writing teachers know about writing and move it into other courses. • WID (Writing in Disciplines) is teaching more discipline-teaching writing, i.e. writing in psychology, social studies, etc. • WID recognizes differing, even conflicting conventions. • WAC emphasizes writing as an act of discovery. • Perspectives • Writing if often used as tool for learning rather than as a focus. • Writing to display knowledge • Writing to learn. • Diagram (see right) • From artistic point of point, writing for creativity. • Writing provides structure and artist returns to dress it up for communication to public. • This may be a writing process (how to say, how to communicate…it is recursive in that it allows you to go back and draft, discuss, etc.) • Should grammar be included in the definition of writing? Grammar has to be integrated into writing. Included in the definition of writing: making meaning + thinking and grammar (but the latter is not equal) • Grammar is
