The WAC casebook: scenes for faculty reflection and program development

Introduction: reflection, faculty development, and writing across the curriculum: the power of scene / Chris M. Anson PART ONE. Writing to learn: Scenes of intellectual growth The misbegotten journal of Dennis Wong / Toby Fulwiler Writing for empathy / Patricia Connor-Greene, Hayley Shilling, and Art Young Writing intensity / Chris M. Anson WAC meets WMS: not love at first sight / Hephzibah Roskelly What's appropriate? / Monica Stitt-Bergh, Thomas Hilgers, and Joan Perkins PART TWO. Effective assignments: Scenes of the craft Great assignment, but nobody's happy / David A. Jolliffe Trudy does comics / Chris M. Anson Who has the power? / Christine Farris Pieces missing: assignments and expectations / Joan Mullin Managing disciplinary difference / Julie M. Zeleznik, Rebecca E. Burnett, Thomas Polito, David Roberts, and John Shafer In the writing-intensive univers(ity) / Wendy Bishop Spreading the words: collaborative writing in "killer lab" / Steven Youra

PART THREE. Reading student work: scenes of response and evaluation Making learning visible: what you can't see can change response / Kathleen Blake Yancey Two papers, two views / Joan Graham The Jonas incident / Chris M. Anson Esmeralda's math class / Sandra Jamieson The finger on the pulse: who teaches writing? / William Condon It's all academic / Deanna P. Dannels PART FOUR. Coaching writing: scenes of ideology and interaction Rewriting the culture of engineering / Thomas Hilgers, Joan Perkins, and Monica Stitt-Bergh Who's "infantalizing?" / Sharon Quiroz Shobhna's pronouncements / Chris M. Anson It's not working / Carol Rutz Requiring revision, juggling the work load / Joan Perkins, Monica Stitt-Bergh, and Thomas Hilgers "You have no right" / Rebecca Moore Howard

PART FIVE. Cybertext: scenes of writing and new technologies Through the back door into cyberspace / Dona J. Hickey and Donna Reiss Connecting students with professionals / Dickie Selfe Sondra gets hyper / Chris M. Anson and Ian G. Anson Lost in the MOO / David A. Jolliffe Anonymity, botulism, and counterfeit Russians / Stephen B. Wiley PART SIX. Fences and neighbors: scenes of cross-disciplinary work and faculty collaboration Whatever things are true: a scenario in four acts / Richard Haswell Is this writing? / Keith Hjortshoj Showdown at Midwestern U: the first-year composition war between English and Economics / Sharon Hamilton Raising the gates of Chem. 110 / Jeffrey Jablonski and Irwin Weiser The strange case of the vanishing very bad writing / Tom Fox

PART SEVEN. Seeds of change: scenes of apprenticeship and the role of graduate students

The blind men and the elephant called writing / Patricia C. Harms and David R. Russell

Greta's cacophony / Michael C. Flanigan

Mistakes in social psychology / Chris M. Anson

To teach or not to teach / Martha A. Townsend

Ranks, roles, and responsibilities: crossing the fine lines in cross-disciplinary mentorship / Julie M. Zeleznik, Rebecca Burnett, Thomas Polito, David Roberts, and John Schafer

PART EIGHT. Tending the garden: scenes of Program Development

Been there, done that: a problem in WAC funding / Chris Thaiss

A chemistry experiment in writing / Carol Rutz

Thoughts from the rank and file / Chris M. Anson

"We hate you!" WAC as a professional threat / Carol Peterson Haviland and Edward M. White

Forget everything you learned about writing / Dennis Baron

Learning about learning communities / Nancy S. Shapiro

Appendix: best online resources for writing across the curriculum / Shaun P. Slattery, Jr.

About the scenemakers.