WAC’s mission includes helping instructors and teaching assistants in all disciplines integrate effective writing instruction into their undergraduate courses. Our consultants, who have decades of experience teaching writing in a variety of disciplines, offer one-on-one consultations with faculty and workshops for teaching assistants.
In past consultations, we have assisted instructors-of-record in doing such things as
- developing discipline-specific writing assignments,
- redesigning courses to incorporate more writing opportunities,
- using writing to meet course learning outcomes,
- designing new courses that will fulfill the Writing Experience core literacy requirement,
- building revision into writing sequences,
- guiding student writing during discussion sections and office hours,
- evaluating and commenting on student writing,
- developing effective rubrics,
- responding to multilingual students' writing, and
- incorporating low-stakes writing-to-learn activities into their courses.
If you would like to make an appointment to meet with a WAC Faculty Consultant about these or any other concerns pertaining to undergraduate writing instruction, please email Kendon Kurzer, the Associate Director for Undergraduate Writing Across the Curriculum: kckurzer@ucdavis.edu.
If you would like to speak with a WAC consultant regarding graduate writing, please email Marit Macarthur, Associate Director for Graduate Writing Across the Curriculum: mjmacarthur@ucdavis.edu.