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We publish news from the WAC and writing communities. Visit to catch up on upcoming
conferences, see calls for proposals, notices of newly published books and other scholarly projects,
stories of WAC programs and practitioners in the news.

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test news – TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments #3 (10 sept)

The third update to TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments (Eds. Carly Schnitzler, Annette Vee, and Tim Laquintano) includes 23 assignments that feature AI or text generation technology in creative and innovative ways. – summary
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news test ( 8 oct ) – Peitho Releases a New Issue

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Test Title – 30 sept

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Q: What are your strategies in achieving these goals for the team? Laine: We’ve had a lot of instability in the program as of late, with new coach after new coach. There’s been a lot of change. This is my second year with
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TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments #3 – test news

The third update to TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments (Eds. Carly Schnitzler, Annette Vee, and Tim Laquintano) includes 23 assignments that feature AI or text generation technology in creative and innovative ways.
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test news ( 28 sept) – Changing paths of academic lives .

An Imagined America: Language, Literacy, Identity, and Coloniality at Syrian Protestant College, 1866–1920, by Lisa R. Arnold, presents a historical, transnational, translingual, and decolonial perspective on questions of identity, literacy, language, culture, and citizenship.
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Peitho Releases a New Issue

Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric has released volume 27, issue 3. The issue includes work by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Saurabh Anand, Florianne Jimenez, Abantika Dhar , Ridita Mizan, Nabila Hijazi, Sarah Cathryn Majed Dweik, Bernardita M. Yunis Varas, Belinda Walzer, Tarez Samra Graban, Jennifer Nish, Sweta Baniyaa, Thomas Gurinskas, Jessica Edens McCrary, and Tommie Leigh McPhetridge. View the new issue

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WLN Releases Its Summer 2025 Issue

WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship has release volume 49, issue 4. The new issue contains work by Lin Li, Alana Kuhlman, Amy Rushall, Margaret Ervin, Gabrielle Stanley, Olivia Mathers, and Timoteo Pereira Neves. Read the new issue

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WAC Clearinghouse Announces Interviews Series

The WAC Clearinghouse is pleased to the lauch of Emerging Voices, a collection of interviews from scholars who are currently making and remaking the field of writing studies. Led by Zak Muñoz, the series provides insights into the embodied experience of writing in our discipline, guiding newcomers as they seek to make a home in the field and providing information about new and potentially critical developments in writing studies. To nominate individuals for inclusion in the series, please visit our nomination form. Self-nominations are encouraged. 

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Double Helix Moves to Rolling Publication Model

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing has moved to a rolling publication model and is now inviting submissions for Volume 13 (2025). The journal publishes a range of scholarly work—from research articles to notes—on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about Double Helix, please visit the journal’s main page.

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