{"id":3325,"date":"2025-07-29T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/spotlight\/?page_id=3325"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:33:28","slug":"cwe-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/spotlight\/cwe-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"2024-25 – Center for Writing Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program continues to play a vital role in raising awareness of the many forms and functions of writing in today\u2019s information-rich, technology-driven world. At UCF, students, faculty and alumni write every day \u2014 whether through text messages, lab reports, social media posts, grant proposals, emails or essays. Writing remains a foundational skill that extends well beyond writing-intensive courses.<\/p>\n

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Yet, access to the latest writing research and strategies often ends after required writing coursework. To bridge this gap, WAC offers a range of programs that help faculty and students refine writing strategies tailored to specific fields, disciplines and professions.<\/p>\n

The WAC Wednesday professional development series featured four workshops, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and reflective writing. The fall series included interdisciplinary workshops like \u201cRed Light, Green Light: Using a Stoplight Metaphor to Promote Transparency in AI Usage\u201d facilitated by Taylar Wenzel, senior lecturer in the School of Teacher Education, and Michelle Kelley, professor of reading education. Both facilitators are former participants in the WAC track at the UCF Summer Institute, where they first developed the strategies presented in this session. The spring series drew on current research by writing studies faculty, including Shane Wood, Matthew Bryan, Lissa Pompos-Mansfield, Megan Lambert and Laurie Pinkert. These sessions offered attendees direct access to UCF-based writing research and innovative tools for enhancing AI-literacy and reflective awareness.<\/p>\n

WAC collaborated with campus partners to offer programs during the UCF Summer Institute, sponsoring seven faculty members for the WAC track, a three-day intensive focused on writing-related needs in courses and academic programs. This year\u2019s cohort included faculty from the Colleges of Sciences, Medicine, Community Innovation and Education, and Arts and Humanities. The institute-wide WAC workshop, \u201cAlways Amid Changing Expectations: What Do Generative Artificial Intelligence Writing Tools Mean for Your Classes?\u201d drew a standing-room-only audience. UCF faculty remain eager to explore how AI is impacting experiences with writing, and the WAC program plays a key role not only in fostering conversation but in conducting relevant research.<\/p>\n

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