Welcome to the
WAC Clearinghouse

Supporting Scholarly Exchange About Communication Across the Disciplines

Welcome to the WAC Clearinghouse

Supporting Scholarly Exchange About Communication Across the Disciplines

An Open-Access Publishing Collaborative for WAC and Writing Studies

More than 250 Scholars from Six Continents

A global network of experts collaborating to advance open-access publications about writing instruction and writing processes.

Free Access to Scholarly Publications

All of our books, articles, and media are available in open-access digital formats—free to read, share, and use.

More than 4800 Published Authors

An international community of authors dedicated to sharing impactful, peer-reviewed research in writing and literacy.

A Wealth of Resources for Instructors

We provide practical, web-based teaching materials to help instructors integrate writing effectively into their courses.

Explore the Clearinghouse

The Clearinghouse offers more than 250 open-access, scholarly books, including original monographs and edited collections.

The Clearinghouse publishes, hosts, or provides access to the archives of more than two-dozen refereed, open-access journals.

The Clearinghouse offers video and audio resources for the WAC and writing studies communities.

Access CompPile, the leading database in the field of writing studies, and TCBib, the leading database for professional and technical communication.

Access peer-reviewed and crowd-sourced resources that support the use of writing in courses across the disciplines.

Learn about the many organizations and groups, that comprise the WAC community.

The Clearinghouse and the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum sponsor awards for WAC scholarship, program development, and achievements.

More than 4,800 scholars have served as authors or editors of the open-access publications on the Clearinghouse.

WAC News

The WAC Clearinghouse seeks applications for two associate publisher positions: Associate Publisher for Web Development and Associate Publisher for Media. The deadline for application is the end of this month. For full details, please view the full announcement.

The WAC Clearinghouse seeks applications to join the editorial team of the Perspectives on Writing book series. The series addresses writing studies in a broad sense. Consistent with the wide-ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take divergent perspectives on working as a writer, teaching writing, administering writing programs, and studying writing in its various forms. The successful candidates will join a collegial team of editors who meet monthly to discuss submissions and reviews of book proposal and manuscripts and to discuss and set the overall direction of the series. Successful applicants will also serve as a member of the Clearinghouse Editorial Board. For full details, please view the full announcement.

AWAC’s Mentoring Committee is excited to announce this year’s AWAC Summer Reads book, Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures: Celebrating and Critiquing WAC at 50.

Endorse the Statement on Open‑Access Scholarly Publishing

Principles for Open-Access Scholarly Publishing has been released by the WAC Clearinghouse. The statement was developed with contributions from 17 scholars in the writing studies community and is endorsed by more than 60 individuals, publications, and organizations. The statement web page provides options for endorsing or making further contributions to the document.

Statement on Open-Access Scholarly

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The Clearinghouse is pleased to support the following projects.

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