"Writing is so complex an activity, so closely tied to a person's intellectual development, that it must be nurtured and practiced over all the years of a student's schooling and in every curricular area."

----Dr. Barbara Walvoord

MISSION STATEMENT

The primary goal of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is to assist colleges, departments, and individual faculty members with all aspects of the teaching of writing and reading in their disciplines, including designing writing and reading assignments, responding to student writing, designing writing assessment, and using writing to improve critical thinking. WAC collaborates with other faculty development and support programs on campus and provides outreach to high schools and community colleges. To help departments and faculty members meet the goals they have for improving their students' reading and writing, the University Reading and Writing Coordinator, through funding from Academic Affairs, provides the following support:

• Summer faculty development retreat
• Biannual spring Reading and Writing across the Curriculum Conference
• Campus-wide, college-wide, and departmental workshops on topics such as assigning and responding to student writing, handling the paper load, integrating writing into large classes, etc.
• Consultations for colleges, departments, and individual faculty members
• Publication of a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) newsletter twice each semester
• Faculty resources for reading and writing (a WAC library of books and articles, grading rubrics and other handouts, a WAC website)
• Thesis writing peer response groups and thesis workshops for graduate students
• Tutoring in the Disciplines program for one-on-one student reading and writing support in the major

To find out more about WAC or to schedule a workshop or consultation, contact:

Dan Melzer
University Reading and Writing Coordinator
151 Calaveras Hall
Email: melzer@csus.edu
Phone: 916-278-6925