Writing Across the Curriculum at NIU: Newsletter
The WAC newsletter at NIU
is published approximately twice a semester. It highlights best practices—often
noting how faculty who have participated in WAC workshops are putting into
practice what they've learned.
- October 1999—Lead story: A
dialogue between Anderson and O'toole on WAC consultants
- December 1999—Lead story: A
dialogue between two WAC consultants on faculty's assignments
- February 2000—Best faculty
practices (writing to learn in technology and finance; student publishing
in psychology)
- April 2000—Issue on essay
exams; Allmendinger awarded WAC grant
- October 2000—types of
commentary that help students improve written work; best faculty practices
in history
- November 2000—Best faculty
practices in operations management, art history, and counselling
- March 2001—Different uses of
portfolios, best practices in nursing, WAC outreach to high schools
- April 2001—Lead story: Brown
and Robertson receive WAC grants
- October 2001—Lead stories:
Courses on writing-in-the-major: what are they, and where are they being
developed at NIU?
- November 2001—End of
semester tips for making grading easy (most requested issue for reprints)
- March 2002—Lead story:
Karlson describes an assignment in economics that charts the full writing
process
- November 2002—Lead story:
New University Writing Center in Stevenson Towers opens
- April 2003—Writing-in-the-major
workshop; national statement on plagiarism
- November 2003—special issue
on meaningful editing exercises for students
- April 2004—special issue on
characteristics of WAC practice
- February 2005—issue theme:
helping students understand what faculty want in writing tasks; best
faculty practice in management
- April 2005—issue theme: reflective
writing as a tool to gauge student learning