The WAC Repository sees the organizing principles below as informing submissions. Submitted materials are expected to reflect some—but not all—of these principles.
Instruction and Pedagogy
- Supporting language diversity
- Supporting writing as a process
- Using writing as a mode of learning
- Understanding writing as rhetorical
- Increasing students’ knowledge of disciplinary writing conventions
- Building students’ 21st century literacies
Student Engagement
- Developing inclusive and accessible strategies for learning
- Supporting underserved or systemically minoritized students
- Increasing student engagement across modalities and formats
- Sustaining writing across students’ academic careers
Culture/Community
- Identifying and tracing various WAC efforts (including professional development) across campus
- Recognizing and building on expertise already on campus
- Creating an interdisciplinary community of committed faculty around teaching and student writing
- Fostering partnerships with other programs to support WAC goals
- Creating a campus culture that supports writing
Program Development
- Learning from experienced WAC directors, researchers, and scholars
- Learning from existing scholarship on WAC program administration
- Seeking interdisciplinary input and investment in the WAC program
- Collaborating with other institutional groups
- Contributing to WAC scholarship
- Advertising your WAC program and its successes
- Addressing and overcoming challenges
- Documenting institutional support
Assessment
- Creating meaningful, inclusive, and equitable evaluation of writing
- Designing models for WAC assessment
- Soliciting input from faculty or students