Readings on WAC
Available to Hunter Faculty through the WAC Program

Request copies from Dennis Paoli at dpaoli@hunter.cuny.edu, or ext. 4014
or Prof. Trudy Smoke at tsmoke@hunter.cuny.edu, ext. 5742

WAC Theory

Langer, Judith A. "Speaking of Knowing: Conceptions of Understanding in Academic
     Disciplines." Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. Ed. Anne
     Herrington and Charles Moran. New York: The Modern Language Association of
     America, 1992. 69-85.

Rose, Mike. "The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University." Cross-
     Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Ed. Victor Villanueva, Jr. Urbana: NCTE,
     1997. 525-547.

Russell, David R. "American Origins of the Writing-across-the-Curriculum Movement."
     Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum. Ed. Charles Bazerman and
     Russell. Davis: Hermagoras Press, 1994. 3-22.

---, ed. "The Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Movement, 1970-1999." Writing in the
     Academic Disciplines, 1870-1990: A Curricular History. By Russell.
     Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002. 271-307.

Townsend, Martha. "Writing Across the Curriculum." English Studies and Language
     Arts. Ed. Alan C. Purves, Linda Papa, and Sarah Jordan. New York: NCTE,
     1994. 1299-1302.

WAC-Related Research

Anderson, Worth, Cynthia Best, Alycia Black, John Hurst, Brandt Miller, and Susan
     Miller. "Cross-Curricular Underlife: A Collaborative Report on Ways with
     Academic Words." College Composition and Communication 41.1 (1990): 13-
     36.

Lester, Nancy, Corinne Bertram, Gregory Erickson, Ernie Lee, Abraham Tchako, Kacy
     D. Wiggins, and James Wilson. "Writing Across the Curriculum: A College
     Snapshot." Urban Education 38.1 (2003): 5-34

Perl, Sondra. "Early Work on Composing: Lessons and Illuminations." History,
     Reflection, and Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition. Ed. M.
     Roesner, B. Boehm, and D. Journet. Stamford: Ablex, 1999. 83-97.

Assignment Design (Including Drafts and Portfolios)

Elbow, Peter. "High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing."
     New Directions for Teaching and Learning 69 (1997): 5-13.

Maimon, Elaine P. "Cultivating the Prose Garden." Phi Delta Kappan (1988): 734-39.

Assessment

Fathman, Ann K., and Elizabeth Whalley. "Teacher Response to Student Writing: Focus
     on Form Versus Content." Second Language Writing: Research Insight for the
     Classroom. Ed. Barbara Kroll. New York: Cambridge UP, 1990. 178-190.

Hartwell, Patricia. "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar." College
     English 47.2 (1985): 105-127.

Sommers, Nancy. "Responding to Student Writing." College Composition and
     Communication 33.2 (1982): 148-156.

Sweeney, Marilyn Ruth. "Relating Revision Skills to Teacher Commentary." TETYC
     (1999): 213-218.

ESL and ESD

Coleman, Charles F. "Our Students Write With Accents-Oral Paradigms for ESD
     Students." College Composition and Communication 48.4 (1997): 486-500.

Johns, Ann M. "ESL Students and WAC Programs: Varied Populations and Diverse
     Needs." WAC For the New Millennium. Ed. Susan H. McLeod, Eric Miraglia,
     Margot Soven, and Christopher Thaiss. Urbana: NCTE, 2001. 141-164.

Zamel, Vivian. "Strangers in Academia: The Experiences of Faculty and ESL Students
     Across the Curriculum." College Composition and Communication 46.4 (1995):
     249-164.

---. "Responding to Student Writing." TESOL Quarterly 19.1 (1985): 79-101.