Published once a semester, the newsletter features articles describing "best practices" in courses across the university; tips on teaching with writing; discussions of issues related to responding to, evaluating, and assessing student writing; tutors' observations on sessions with their UWC clients; and summaries of brown bag discussions on WAC topics.

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FALL 2004 ISSUE

• Are We Helping Students Think Critically? Ways to Evaluate Assignments and Assess Students' Responses
• How to Help Students Give Effective Peer Response
• Students Writers Make Good Student Readers: Guidelines for Helping Students Form Writing Groups
• Grammar Corner: Passive v. Active: The Jury Is In
• Writing Fellows: Who They Are and How They Help Faculty
• WAC Committee Conducts Third Review of Writing-Intensive Syllabi: Excerpts from the 2003-04 Report

SPRING 2004 ISSUE

• WAC and TAC: What's the Connection?
• Using Digital Images in Critical Papers
• Writing About Mathematics: Proofs, Images, and "Plain Words"
• Librarian's Corner: Tips for Searching Databases
• Surfer's Guide to the Universe
• Grammar Corner: Ending Sentences with Prepositions
• News from the Center

FALL 2003 ISSUE

• "Celebration of Writing" Recognizes Faculty WAC/Assessment Efforts
• Issue Papers: Putting Students in Charge of Their Own Learning
• Critical Analysis, Interpretation, Writing About Data
• Tutoring Online
• Writing in Large Classes
• Responding to Student Writing
• Grammar Corner: Who vs. Whom

SPRING 2003 ISSUE

• Cut-Ups: Building Writing by Breaking it Down
• Writing to Explain Museums in a Synthesis Course
• Poetry in Your Course?
• Magic Writing By Nurses
• Designing Writing Assignments
• Fostering Academic Integrity
• Grammar Corner: Passive Voice

FALL 2002 ISSUE

• Writing and IT Skills in Composition and IT&E
• GMU WAC Landmarks
• Writing Assessment Update
• Grammar Corner: Awkward Sentence Constructions

• What to Do About Plagiarism
• Cognitive Psych and Writing
• Writing Tutors from Various Disciplines
• Update on Writing Assessment in Academic Units

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SPRING 2000 ISSUE

FALL 1999, ISSUE 2

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FALL 1999, ISSUE 1