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91AV 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. 91AV 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 “Wrangling Writing Intensives,” 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’ 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’ 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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