The Writing Campus: George Mason's WAC Program

Wait. It’s a blog? Yes. Here at The Writing Campus, we want to explode your ideas about the genre of “scholarly blogging”. . . Think of us as a remix of The Writing Lab Newsletter and ProfHacker. Our goal is to create conversation about writing and writing instruction across institutional and professional centers. We serve the Writing Across the Curriculum community broadly, producing practical, yet scholarly, pieces for instructors in the disciplines who teach and value writing. The pieces we seek will share practices and observations, providing support for faculty writing instructors who teach writing in many different contexts. We welcome a range of styles, approaches, and topics: Traditional. Hybrid. Multi-Modal. Print. Personal. Scholarly. Reflective. Empirical. Submit through our Online Journal System: http://journals.gmu.edu/writingcampus/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

Mission: Central to our WAC mission is the belief that when students are given frequent opportunities for writing across the university curriculum, they think more critically and creatively, engage more deeply in their learning, and are better able to transfer what they have learned from course to course, context to context. The WAC mission forwards goals laid out in the university mission statement by focusing on writing as a pedagogical tool that enables students to develop critical, analytical, and imaginative thinking to address complex social issues, and on faculty development in support of excellence in teaching. The most visible components of our program are: the writing-intensive requirement in the major, with oversight by the WAC Committee, appointed by the Faculty Senate; the advanced composition in the disciplines (English 302) requirement; and writing-infused programs across the curriculum. Good teaching practice is reinforced through faculty development workshops, departmental assessment workshops, and collaboration with other teaching-focused units across the university, including CTE, TAC, CTAC, and the University Writing Center, which provides vital support for student writers. Additionally, this website and the Teaching With Writing Across the Curriculum newsletter celebrate and support faculty efforts in teaching with writing.