WAC Program Initiatives for 2006-2007
- The WAC committee is undertaking its fourth review of writing-intensive courses across the university.
- Interviews are being conducted with COS undergraduate coordinators with data leading to profiles on writing in scientific and computational majors.
- The program plans to expand its support of student excellence in writing awards. In spring 2006, the WAC writing excellence award was renamed “The Chris Thaiss Award for Excellence in Writing in the Disciplines” to recognize Chris’s contribution as founder of our WAC program. (Chris has left Mason to lead a writing program at U. California, Davis.) See award winners.
- Funds are available to pay stipends to faculty who participate in discipline-specific half-day workshops on teaching with writing. Funds are also available to support the production of on-line writing guides in the disciplines. See http://wac.gmu.edu/guides/GMU%20guides.html.
- The WAC website is scheduled to be redesigned in the spring, following the unveiling of a newly designed writing center site.
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