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91直播视频English Professor Michael Cripps contributes to new book on Writing Across the Curriculum programs

Sustainable WAC: A Whole-Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs by Michelle Cox, Je
Sustainable WAC: A Whole-Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs by Michelle Cox, Jeffrey R. Galin and Dan Melzer. 91直播视频Associate Professor Michael Cripps, Ph.D., contributed a case study to the book.

Michael J. Cripps, Ph.D., associate professor and director of composition in the Department of English, published 鈥淲rangling Writing Intensives,鈥 a brief case study of a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program renewal effort, which appears in the book  (National Council of Teachers of English, 2018) by Michelle Cox, Jeffrey R. Galin and Dan Melzer.

Cripps鈥 contribution examines the ways that a focused, coordinated effort to understand the curricular and programmatic challenges of sustaining a WAC graduation requirement can help to turn around a program at risk of unraveling.  The case study is one of several that help to anchor the authors鈥 examination of the value of the whole systems approach, the central thesis of the book.

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Michael Cripps
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