Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing Across the Curriculum at Bowling Green State University

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Writing not only demands thinking, it is also a means for thinking . . . . By writing about a subject, one learns what one thinks about the subject . . . [and] one can improve one's thinking about a particular subject by writing about it . . . .(Robert T. Kellogg, The Psychology of Writing)

WAC focuses not on writing skills per se, but on teaching both the content of the discipline and the particular discourse features used in writing about that content. (Susan McLeod, "The Pedagogy of Writing Across the Curriculum")

Writing in the disciplines . . . considers not just teaching but learning, and thus sees student, teacher, and discipline as an interrelated system. (Anne Herrington & Charles Moran, Writing, Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines)

Page Overview

Faculty and students of the Rhetoric & Writing PhD Program are committed to enhancing the way writing is used in teaching and learning at BGSU and they are interested in working with others toward that end. This page is a way to share information as well as to gather ideas from across the campus.

Contact and Resource Information:

If you would like to 1) share ways of using writing to teach, 2) recommend useful links, or 3) receive notices of WAC discussions, courses, and the like, please email Dr. Richard Gebhardt at richgeb@bgnet.bgsu.edu. For further inquiry about the WAC page or updates, please contact Brennan Thomas at bmthoma@bgnet.bgsu.edu.