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Director, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
Dr. Terry Myers Zawacki (tzawacki@gmu.edu)
Terry Myers Zawacki directs George Mason University's Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program, named as one of the top twenty programs in the U.S. She also co-chairs the cross-university Writing Assessment Group charged with overseeing a state-mandated assessment of students' writing competence across disciplines. (Click here for a description of this assessment.)

As an associate professor in English, she regularly teaches courses in writing ethnography, advanced writing for the social sciences, first year composition, and graduate courses in composition theory and the teaching of composition. As former directory of the University Writing Center, she also developed and teaches the experiential course Peer Tutoring in Writing in the Disciplines. Her publications include Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life, co-authored with Chris Thaiss, along with articles on academic writing and second language writers, writing centers and writing fellows, writing in the disciplines (WID), alternative discourses, writing in learning communities, feminism and composition, and writing assessment. Her current research interests focus on WAC/WID programs and writing instruction transnationally, global Englishes, and what WAC programs and writing centers must learn from second language scholarship and practice to work effectively with multi-lingual writers. Related to the latter, she serves on the Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Committee on Globalization of Postsecondary Writing Instruction and Research.

Dr. Zawacki is on the Consultants Board of the International WAC Network and a section editor for the Writing Fellows pages of the national WAC Clearinghouse, an online repository of information on WAC programs and a resource for books, journals, and teaching materials focused on writing in the disciplines. She also serves on the editorial board of Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Academic Writing and the Digital Books series published by the WAC Clearinghouse.

In addition, she is an editorial consultant and writing in the disciplines specialist for the Diana Hacker series of handbooks on writing published by Bedford/St. Martin's, among these A Writer's Reference and The Bedford Handbook. She consults and gives presentations nationally and internationally on WAC, writing in disciplines, writing center work, and assessment.

Assistant Director, WAC, and Assessment Specialist, Written Communication, for the Office of Institutional Assessment
Sarah E. Baker (sbaker@gmu.edu)
Sarah E. Baker holds a Baccalaureat degree from the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle (London), a BA from Wesleyan University (CT), and an MA in the Teaching of Writing and Literature from George Mason University. She spent 16 years in the private sector as an editor. She currently holds a joint position as Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, where she helps sustain the robust and nationally acclaimed WAC program at Mason, and as an Assessment Specialist in Written Communication in the Office of Institutional Assessment where she works on state-mandated assessment requirements. She helps oversee the Writing Fellows program, and has taught Peer Tutoring in Writing in the Disciplines, introductory composition, and/or advanced composition in the disciplines courses. Her research interests and panel presentations usually involve the integration of technologies in the writing classroom, as well as visual literacy and digital literacy.
Associate Director, Writing Center
Anna Habib (ahabib@gmu.edu)
Anna Sophia Habib is the Associate Director of the University Writing Center and term faculty in the English Department. Anna is currently conducting research with a team of writing center researchers on non-native students' experiences with writing in English and in their native language. Their research findings appear online at http://writtenaccents.gmu.edu and in print in Valuing Written Accents: Non-native Students Talk about Identity, Academic Writing, and Meeting Teachers’ Expectations, which was published in 2007 by University Life and George Mason’s Diversity Research Group.
 
 

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