The following books are very helpful in learning about Writing Across the Curriculum in general:

Bazerman, Charles, and David R. Russell.  Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum.
        Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1994.

Fassler-Walvoord, Barbara E.  Helping Students Write Well: A Guide for Teachers in All
        Disciplines.  2nd ed.  New York: MLA, 1986.

Griffin, C. Williams, ed.  Teaching Writing in All Disciplines.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982.

Herrington, Anne, and Charles Moran eds.  Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines.
       New York: MLA, 1992.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake, and Brian Hout, eds.  Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum:
        Diverse Approaches and Practices.  Greenwich, CN: Ablex, 1997.
 

If you wish to incorporate WAC in your classroom, the following are readers and composition texts with a variety of articles from different disciplines:

Behrens, Laurence, and Leonard J. Rosen, eds.  Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum.
        6th ed.  New York: Longman, 1997.

Comley, Nancy R. et al.  Fields of Writing: Reading Across the Disciplines.  4th ed.  New York:
        St. Martin's, 1994.

Eppley, George, and Anita Dixon Eppley.  Building Bridges to Academic Writing.  Mountain
        View, CA: Longman, 1997.

Hult, Christine.  Readings from the Disciplines: Research Models for Writers.  Boston: Allyn &
        Bacon, 1997.

Jones, Robert, Patrick Bizzaro, and Cynthia Selfe, eds.  The Harcourt Brace Guide to Writing in
        the Disciplines.  New York: Harcourt, 1997.

Ward, Dean.  Tradition and Adaptation: Writing in the Disciplines.  Moutain View, CA:
        Mayfield, 1997.

Guides Specific to the Social Sciences:

Hansen, Kristine.  A Rhetoric for the Social Sciences: A Guide to Academic and Professional
        Communication.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1998.

Hellstern, Mark, Gregory M. Scott, and Stephen M. Garrison.  The History Student Writer's
        Manual.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1998.

Hult, Christine A.  Researching and Writing in the Social Sciences.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon,
        1996.

MacDonald, Susan Peck.  Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social
        Sciences. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

Richlin-Klonsky, Judith, and Ellen Strenski.  A Guide to Writing Sociology Papers.  4th ed.  New
        York: St. Martin's, 1998.

Scott, Gregory M., and Stephen M. Garrison.  The Political Science Student Writer's Manual.
        2nd ed.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1998.

Bibliography for Economics Writing Consultants (compiled by Brian Gilbert)
 
 

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