News, Events, and Calls

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.

Writing about Brass Instruments at Lakeridge Elementary

Kindergarteners learn about the brass family of musical instruments as they write across the curriculum.

Writing in the Reading Classroom in Frisco, Texas

Allen Elementary students write about what they are reading. 

Landmark Textbook Writing in the Arts and Sciences Re-released

Writing in the Arts and Sciences, one of the first WAC textbooks, re-released in open-access format in by the WAC Clearinghouse.

Moore Elementary Teachers Explore Opinion Writing

Moore Elementary Teachers explore how to use persuasive writing and opinion writing across the curriculum.

Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines Re-released

Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life is re-released by the WAC Clearinghouse.

St. Francis de Sales Students Write in PE

Students write about experimentation in their PE class.

Fractions, Pizza, and WAC!

Students learn about fractions with pizza slices and writing across the curriculum.

Grounded Literacies in a Transnational WAC/WID Ecology

New book draws from WAC/WID, second language writing, rhetoric and composition, and scholarship on English teaching and learning in South Korea to describe the ways writing as a privileged literate activity shapes and is shaped by the development of one university’s transnational campuses.

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Please submit news items to Traci Gardner, News Editor, at WACClearinghouseNews@gmail.com.

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