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2004 · Bloomington, IN

Theme: Seventh National WAC Conference, WAC From an International Perspective, May 20-22

About this year's source. The Seventh National WAC Conference (Bloomington), which the Clearinghouse files under IWAC 2004.
89sessions
338people listed
93%first listed in this corpus
17.9%at institutions outside the US
34%of listings from ten institutions

Roles

  • presenter: 398

Countries of listed institutions

  • US: 170
  • ZA: 9
  • GB: 9
  • CA: 5
  • AU: 5
  • CR: 4
  • NL: 3
  • TR: 1

Source files

  • capture/iwac2004-program.pdf

Links go to the program as the WAC Clearinghouse hosts it, where one exists.

Most-listed institutions

Sessions (89)

CodeTitleFormatPeople
1.1New Designs for Communication Across the Curriculum3
1.2Using Writing to Improve Learning In the Sciences: An Initial Investigation3
1.3Theory, Sociocultural Context, and Teaching Writing: Cross-Cultural Conversations between France and the United States2
1.4Modes of Faculty Development and Assessment in WAC/WID/CID3
1.5Inventory of Processes in College Composition: A Model for Assessment and Instruction - Part I (workshop)1
1.6WAC in Two Places: General Education, Community Colleges3
1.7WID in Canada: A Report on Its History and3
1.8Using Research to Change and Strengthen WAC/WID Initiatives5
1.9Using the Museum Experience for ESL Writing3
2.1Developing a WAC Program in a Multicultural Environment in Costa Rica4
2.2Becoming "Literate" in the Scientific and Engineering Disciplines3
2.3Writing Across St. Louis: From Community College to Research University3
2.4Writing as Learning a Foreign Language2
2.5Inventory of Processes in College Composition: A Model for Assessment and Instruction - Part II (workshop)1
2.6WAC Synergies with Problem-Based and Project-Based Learning3
2.7Issues in Academic Integrity3
2.8Writing and Democracy: The Role of Writing in Creating Citizen Awareness3
2.9WAC in the City: Toward a Definition of WAC Practice in Urban Community College Settings22
3.1"Composing" a Community: The History of WAC in Higher Education3
3.2Inquiry into Clinical Writing Instruction: Collaborations Between WAC and Communication Sciences and Disorders4
3.3Transforming the Curriculum Through Writing- Intensive, Technology-Based Course Redevelopment3
3.4"It Is My Problem": WAC and the ESL1
3.5Out-of-Class Writing for Special Purposes2
3.6Secondary and Post-Secondary Writing Connections2
3.7Writing and Retaining: Using Writing Assignments to Retain First-Year Teachers2
3.8Discipline-Based Faculty in Writing Centers3
3.9Getting WAC-ed with a Standardized Test4
4.1Academic Writing in Europe: Different Goals, Different Needs2
4.2The Culture of Writing: Synthesizing the Goals of WAC and Second Language Writing3
4.3Toward a Critically Conscious WAC: Theory and Practice in Consulting, Tutoring, and Teaching3
4.4"It Is My Problem": WAC and the ESL1
4.5Launching New CAC Programs2
4.6Issues Raised by Peer Tutors and Informal Networks of Learning3
4.7Electronic Course Management Platforms and the Possibilities for WAC4
4.8Demonstrating the Connection Between Writing3
4.9From Protons to Prescriptions: Using Writing11
5.1"Local is a Relative Term": The Study of5
5.2Playing to Win: Teaching Creativity in WAC1
5.3Lessons to be Learned: What Diversity Can3
5.4Adapting WAC/WID to the Law School3
5.5Writing Right: Developing Standards of2
5.6Mediators, Ambassadors, and Collaborators:2
5.7Teaching Discipline-Appropriate Discourse Methods Integrating Skills for Scientific Writing into a Curriculum for Research Methods in Psychology2
5.8Desire versus Convention in Disciplinary Writing Inside/Outside the Academy: Answers from Research with Faculty and Students on Expectations Faculty Voices: Implications of Interviews with WID Faculty for Teaching and Program Development3
5.9Crossing the Chasm between WAC Inspiration and WAC Action (roundtable)6
6.1How University Outcomes Assessment Has Revitalized WAC at Seattle University The Transformative Effect of Barbara Walvoord's Embedded Assignment Approach to University Outcomes Assessment3
6.2A Leaderless WID Program's Five-Year Review (roundtable)4
6.3Integrating Writing into Science: Case Studies3
6.4Empowering Students to Develop Writing Solutions to Learning Challenges WAC and the Integration of Faith and Learning5
6.5From Resistance to Receptiveness: Methods for2
6.6WAC and the Online Environment4
6.7Innovations in Writing Assignments3
6.8Writing Centers as Greenhouses / Community1
6.9Bringing Together Academic Literacies and1
6.10"But I'm Done with This Paper": The5
7.1Courses and Cultures: What Our Language Tells Us about Our Work What Students' "Response Papers" in the Disciplines Suggest About Writing Course Design2
7.2A WAC Faculty Learning Community: Two Perspectives New Venture: A Faculty Learning Community Focused on WAC A Participant's Perspective on a WAC-Focused Faculty Learning Community2
7.3WAC at the Crossroads: Writing in the Disciplines of the CORE Curriculum WAC at the Crossroads: Writing in the Disciplines of the CORE Curriculum4
7.4Developing Global Communicators through4
7.5Constructing Intellectual Property: Disciplinary Understandings of Ownership (roundtable)5
7.6"Good Writing": Cultural Values and Writing Instruction Culture, Curriculum, and Cognition: Contrastive Rhetorics Today3
7.7Pulling Together: Software to Demonstrate1
7.8Two Professors Are Better Than One: Teaching Writing in an Interdisciplinary Team-Taught Course3
7.9Supporting the Needs of Non-Native Speakers Reaching Across Cultures through Writing9
8.1Multimedia, Online Cases to Improve Students' Communication and Learning in the Disciplines4
8.2Methods for Engaging Faculty Support for WAC Programs4
8.3Writing the Self/Writing the Other/Writing for Citizenship: Writing Across a Curriculum of Interdisciplinary Learning Communities3
8.4Writing Across the General Studies English Curriculum3
8.5Faculty Development, Grade Equity, and TA Training through Norming Sessions4
8.6WAC on the Web: A Rubric for Building WAC Program Websites (workshop)2
8.7Technology and WAC/WID WAC and Collaborative Publishing Technologies: Toward a Scholarly Publishing Model Beneficial to WAC4
8.8"WACing" Big Changes on a Low Budget: Developing and Implementing a Writing Intensive, Faculty Learning Community Developing and Planning a Writing-Intensive Faculty Learning Community: Small Beginnings, Big Vision4
8.9Changing Institutional Cultures: WAC and the Curriculum Culture Shock to Acculturation: Developing a New Culture of WAC3
9.1Interns and International Communication Across the Curriculum Interns and International Communication Across the Curriculum2
9.2Specialized Writing Cultures: Industry, Social Work, and Law Helping Students Communicate in Research and Development Environments: Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry5
9.3The Evolution of a WAC Writing Center Population Pressure Versus Philosophy in a WAC Writing Center3
9.4What's a Picture Worth? Integrating Visual Literacy into WAC4
9.5Writing Across Curriculums and Cultures: An Online Collaboration Among Swedish and American Students4
9.6Linguistic Underpinnings of Writing6
9.8But It Didn't Work as Promised: Faculty Candidly Discuss Problems Encountered in the Classroom upon Implementation of WAC Workshop Ideas3
9.9Approaches to Interdisciplinary Coursework: Models That Expand Our Understanding of Writing Across the Curriculum5
10.1Writing to Learn versus Learning to Write: An International Perspective Writing to Learn versus Learning to Write: A Global3
10.2Promoting Student Learning through Summary/ Reaction Journals Summary/Reaction Journals as a Generative Learning Tool3
10.3Changing Borders in WAC: Altering Websites, Revising Courses, Fostering Reading Erasing the Boundary: Integrating WAC Content into a Generalized Teaching and Learning Website3
10.4Worst Case Scenario Handbook: What to Do When Staggering Budget Cuts Threaten to Undermine Your WAC Program3
10.5Meet the Editors: Q & A for Prospective Writers1
10.6Training TA's and Writing Fellows to Respond to Student Writing Teaching Assistants, WAC, and NWP Pedagogy8
10.7Ten Years Out: Are Teaching Portfolios Worth It?2
10.8Winning Over the Faculty to WAC, Five Minutes at a Time (workshop)95