Composing a Community
A History of Writing Across the Curriculum
- 216 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Composing a Community is not only a history of early WAC programs but also of how the people developing those programs were in touch with one another, exchanging ideas and information, forming first a network and then a community. Composing a Community captures the stories of pioneers like Elaine Maimon, Toby Fulwiler, and others, giving readers first-hand accounts from those who were present at the creation of this new movement. David Russell's introduction sets this emergent narrative into relief. Susan H. McLeod and Margot Iris Soven, themselves pioneers in WAC history, have assembled some of its most eloquent voices in this collection: Charles Bazerman, John C. Bean, Toby Fulwiler, Anne Herrington, Carol Holder, Peshe C. Kuriloff, Linda Peterson, David R. Russell, Christopher Thaiss, Barbara E. Walvoord, and Sam Watson. Their style is personal, lively, and informal as the authors succeed in putting their personal memories in the larger context of WAC studies.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: WAC’s Beginnings: Developing a Community of Change Agents
- 1 It Takes a Campus to Teach a Writer: WAC and the Reform of Undergraduate Education
- 2 A University-Schools Partnership: WAC and the National Writing Project at George Mason University
- 3 Circles of Interest: The Growth of Research Communities in WAC and WID/WIP
- 4 The Start of Writing in the Disciplines/Writing Across the Curriculum in the California State University System
- 5 WAC Becomes Respectable: The University of Chicago Institutes on Writing and Higher Order Reasoning
- 6 Writing across the Curriculum in the Ivy Consortium
- 7 Montana, Mina Shaughnessy, and Microthemes: Reflections on WAC as a Community
- 8 Still a Good Place to Be: More than 20 Years of the National Network of WAC Programs
- 9 Gender and Discipline in Two Early WAC Communities: Lessons for Today
- 10 Writing Across the Michigan Tech Curriculum
- 11 My Story of Wildacres, 1983–1998
- About the Authors
- Index
- Back cover