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Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), influenced by the language-and-learning-across-the-curriculum research and practice by such British scholars as , is an educational movement initiated in the 1970s in the United States. Its evolution, development, and longevity suggest that it has met the need in higher education for “better learning and writing for students, better teaching for faculty” However, this need is neither unique to American higher education nor English.
The future of WAC, like its past, is about forging alliances, expanding with new connections, even as we wrestle with the inevitable contradictions of education and civic life.
David Russell (2002)
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Wu, D. (2012). Introduction. In: Introducing Writing Across the Curriculum into China. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33096-4_1
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