April 18, 2014
On Friday, April 18, we held the Spring 2014 WAC Fellows Showcase. Teams of faculty from Criminal Justice, Nursing, and Modern Languages and Literatures presented the materials they developed with our help this semester. That was followed by the presentation of the first Schell Award for Innovative Writing Instruction in the Disciplines. The award was…
January 21, 2014
The Knights Write Showcase provides a chance for students and faculty from across campus to get a glimpse of the exciting work currently going on in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric’s First-Year Writing Program. Activities include student displays, student panels, a faculty panel, and the Stylus Awards Ceremony. This year the Knights Write…
January 13, 2014
This semester, the WAC Program has started a series of "open house style" sessions during which former WAC Fellows get together to informally discuss various issues related to their efforts to teach writing in their disciplines. The first in a series of these sessions took place today, January 13. 14 faculty members from 10 departments…
December 4, 2013
Today, December 4, the WAC Program hosted the WAC Fellows showcase event during which teams of faculty from History, Industrial Engineering, and Education presented the results of their works with us over the semester. Their learning outcomes sets, writing assignments, and curriculum grid will be posted on our website soon.
September 10, 2013
Starting in the Fall of 2013, The Writing Across the Curriculum Program is offering WAC Fellows (former and current) a space to continue thinking about teaching writing in their classes. These times will be available every week. Monday, 10am-12pm Thursday, 2pm-4pm During these times, we will be available to answer questions or discuss issues that…
September 4, 2013
Associate professor of History and former WAC fellow Dan Murphree has an excellent piece in the current issue of Faculty Focus newsletter about the synthesis between WAC and American Historical Association’s Tuning Project. Says Murphree: “Neither designed nor expected, the synthesis of Tuning Project and WAC objectives benefited our efforts to fulfill the goals of…
April 24, 2013
We have new additions to the Writing-Related Learning Outcomes and Writing Assignments sections of the website, from the departments of finance and music. In the coming days, we will be posting three more sets, from the departments of anthropology and management, and from the School of Finance. These materials were developed by faculty teams from…
April 10, 2013
Our colleague from the Department of History Dan Murphree who was a member of the History WAC Fellows Team in the spring of 2012 has published an article about the teaching of writing in history courses in Perspectives on History, the news magazine of the American Historical Association. The title of the article is "An…
January 28, 2013
Scot French is an associate professor in the Department of History. Dr. French is a digital public historian who specializes in the interpretation of cultural landscapes and sites of memory associated with African American, Southern, and Atlantic World history. “To date, I’ve evaluated four WAC-inspired assignments, with very promising results. My students are showing me…
December 7, 2012
In our continuing efforts to help faculty in all disciplines develop useful writing assignments and in making the results of that effort available to all UCF faculty, we have added three new sets of assignments, developed during the Fall of 2012 WAC Fellows Session by teams of faculty from Political Science, Nano Science, and Film…