2008 · Austin, TX

Theme: University of Texas at Austin, May 29-31

About this year's source. Read from the PDF program. Several multi-author entries print no institution.

106sessions

324people listed

78%first listed in this corpus

14.7%at institutions outside the US

32%of listings from ten institutions

Roles

presenter: 357

Countries of listed institutions

US: 133
CA: 7
TR: 6
GB: 3
SG: 2
SE: 2
AU: 2
AE: 1

Source files

capture/iwac2008-program.pdf

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

Most-listed institutions

Institution	Listings	People
Clemson University US	8	8
California State University System US	6	4
Iowa State University US	5	5
McNeese State University US	5	5
University of California System US	5	5
University of Delaware US	5	5
University of Oklahoma US	5	4
Brigham Young University US	4	4
Schreiner University US	4	4
George Mason University US	3	3
Hostos Community College US	3	2
Louisiana State University US	3	3
Marquette University US	3	3
Michigan State University US	3	1
Sabancı Üniversitesi TR	3	1
Stanford University US	3	3
University of Minnesota US	3	3
University of North Carolina at Asheville US	3	3
Australian National University AU	2	1
Chalmers University of Technology SE	2	1
Duke University US	2	2
Indiana University US	2	2
Istanbul Bilgi University TR	2	1
Minnesota State University Moorhead US	2	2
NUS High School of Mathematics and Science SG	2	2

Sessions (106)

Code	Title	People
S1	Assessment: A New Challenge for Multimodal Communication Programs	3
S2	Graduate Writing Consultants: A Case Study in Translating and Collaborating Across Disciplinary Borders	3
S3	Engineering and Collaboration	4
S4	Bringing Together Two Campus Cultures for a Common WAC Purpose	5
S5	Going to the Movies to Teach Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Ethics	3
S6	Meeting Disciplinary Expectations	3
S7	Writing and Learning in the Discipline of Business Communication	4
S8	Linking Teacher-Student Identities as Writers and Professionals	3
S9	Requiring Writing Intensive (WI) Courses: Hurdle for Getting that Degree?	3
S10	Interdisciplinary Writing and Performing: The Living Newspapers Across the Disciplines Program	4
S11	Difficult Dialogues: Inducting Students Into New Disciplinary Language	2
S12	Responding to Student Writing: What Do We Do with “Error”?	4
S13	An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Issues Related to Writing Instruction and Assessment	3
S14	Small College WAC: Questioning Borders While Creating Spaces	2
S15	Re-centering “Composition”: Identity, Race, and Writing Instruction	2
S16	Inter-Disciplines: Learning from Each Other	2
S17	The Traveling Rhetorician’s Toolkit: A Workshop on Methods and Models for Guiding Cross-Curricular Literacy Work	1
S18	Collaboration, Conflict, and Communication in Revising Writing Across the Curriculum	4
S19	Aligning Our Assignments and Assessments With Our Goals	5
S20	Flexible Technologies, Pedagogies, and Disciplines	5
S21	Speaking WAC: Translating Between English 101 and Social Work	4
S22	The Learning Curve: Implementing Assessment’s Lessons in Engineering and	3
S23	So, What Do We Do With the Freshmen? Providing Meaningful First Year	5
S24	Teaching Specific Communication Competencies Online: Three Research Studies	3
S25	Who Has WAC and How Is It Defined? The International WAC/WID Mapping	2
S26	Reconsidering Our WAC Strategies and Goals	2
S27	Inside Jobs: WAC Faculty Training and Campus Cultural Transformation, Rhetoric and Reality	5
S28	Translating Our Terms for Different Contexts	2
S29	Translations and Transformations: Writing in the Disciplines and Academic Culture in the First-Year Experience	4
S30	Navigating the Waters: The Process of Bringing WAC to A Small East Texas School	2
S31	Border Crossings and Collaborations in Multiple Media: Conversations Within, Across, and Beyond an Urban University	4
S32	Managing Rapport In the “Middle”	3
S33	Research: Linking to Disciplinary Classes—Learning From the Inside Out	3
S34	Adapting to the Bologna Agreement: Delivering Masters Programs In English and	3
S35	Profiling Programs: Formative Uses of Assisted Description in the Implementation of CAC	3
S36	The Writing Tutor’s No-Man’s Land: Negotiating the Boundaries of Collaborative Learning in the Writing Center	4
S37	Connecting Writing Sub-Cultures On A Liberal Arts Campus: Deepening WAC Principles	3
S38	When Specific Students Need More	3
S39	Pedagogies: Checking and Crossing Boundaries	2
S40	What Assessment Methods Work?	7
S41	Models For Planning and Maintaining WAC Programs	3
S42	Wiki and Collaboration: Using Wiki Technology to Make Shared Hypertextual	3
S43	Navigating the Revision of Our Roles	2
S44	Looking Back to Look Forward: WAC Programs	3
S45	Reading in the Disciplines	4
S46	International Intersections Part I	16
S47	Reconsidering Teaching: EAP Support	4
S48	WAC Assessment Strategies	3
S49	More than Lab Reports: Integrating Information Literacy and Writing-to-Learn in Organic Chemistry Labs	0
S50	Gargantuan R1 and the Daring Initiative: Enabling Faculty to Change their Own Curricula	4
S51	Calibrated Peer Review	2
S52	Writing in Math	4
S53	Writing Across the Campuses: Forging Links Between Two-Year and Four-Year College WAC/WID Programs	3
S54	Learning from Community Colleges	3
S55	Making Data Speak: Border Crossings in Rhetoric, Chemistry, Literature, and Mathematics	6
S56	Writing Fellows Programs: Different Models	3
S57	Writing Courses Linked to Disciplines	3
S58	Exchanging Students, Exchanging Training: Crossing National and Disciplinary Borders	4
S59	Cross-Cultural Dialogue and the Sustainable Learning Culture	1
S60	Visualizing Textual Identities in the Classroom: Negotiating the Boundary Between Visual and Alphabetic Composition	2
S61	Faculty Writing Residencies as WAC Community-Building Initiatives	3
S62	Theory and Innovation in WAC Faculty Development	4
S63	Writing the Core, and Disciplines	2
S64	Meeting of WAC Clearinghouse Board and Staff	0
S65	International Secondary or University WAC-Based Writing Centers: What’s the	6
S66	Rethinking the First Year: How Do We Support WAC?	3
S67	What Is Good Writing Instruction? How Do We Measure It?	3
S68	Programs and Structure: What Works?	2
S69	Models for Writing in the Disciplines: Experiments in Social Science Writing	3
S70	Fostering a Campus-Wide Culture of Writing: The Faculty WAC Network Program	4
S71	Engaging Faculty and Students to Use Writing	5
S72	Analogies, Engagement, and Transfer: Strategies Across the Disciplines	3
S73	CxC/(Science + Engineering) = Next Generation Research on Science and Engineering Communication	3
S74	Transcending Physical, Emotional, and Visual Boundaries	3
S75	Home Building and Border Crossing: Next Steps for the University of Alberta’s Writing Initiatives	2
S76	Faculty Development: Creating Collaborative Communities	2
S77	Bridging Communities Through Collaboration: Synthesizing Multiple Approaches to	4
S78	The Things We Carried: WAC/WID Workshops Inspiring Faculty Across Disciplines	5
S79	Writing in Electronic Environments	3
S80	Designing Assignments, Creating Assessments: Changing Our Practices	3
S81	Cross-Disciplinary Writing: Collaboration Among Technical Disciplines and A Writing Center	15
S82	The Writer’s Personal Profile: Tool for Writing-Intensive Students’ Self-Assessment and Goal-Setting at Start of Term	2
S83	Performing Writing, Enacting Change	2
S84	How and Where Does Knowledge About Writing Transfer?	3
S85	Internationalization: Translating WAC into Disciplinary Cultures	2
S86	Challenges and Opportunities: Examples Across and Within the Curriculum	1
S87	Crossing Disciplinary Borders: Writing Across School Boundaries	2
S88	Engineering and Transfer	4
S89	Sequencing the Development of Crucial Skills Across the Curriculum	3
S90	The Burden of Being the Poster Child: Interrogating the Impact of WAC Faculty Allies	3
S91	WC/WAC Support: Connecting, Retaining, Relocating	3
S92	Rhetorical Approaches: Applicable Strategies Across the Disciplines	2
S93	Research and Practice in Creative and Visual Methods Across the Curriculum Mechanical Engineers Meet Dr. Suess	2
S94	International Intersections Part II	16
S95	Writing for Social Justice Across Curricula and Borders	2
S96	Motivation and Engagement: Models and Questions	1
S97	What Do We Talk About When We Talk About WAC?	0
S98	The Rhetoric of Writing Across the Curriculum: Choices and Challenges Boundaries, Joints, and Ornaments	3
S99	Crossing Intellectual and Geographical Boundaries Successfully	2
S100	Articulating WAC—Defining, Conveying, Situating, Institutionalizing	2
S101	Crossing Borders into Disciplines	4
S102	Not Just for Fun: Tinker Toys, Comics, and Rock n’ Roll	2
S103	Paths to Information: Assessing Student Use of Library Tools in an Advanced WID Program	3
S104	What Does it Mean to Teach Writing in A Discipline?	4
S105	Channeling the Monster: Where Literacies Converge	3
S106	Writing in the Sciences on the Secondary and College Level: Is There A	3