Welcome to the
WAC Clearinghouse
Supporting Scholarly Exchange About Communication Across the Disciplines
Welcome to the WAC Clearinghouse
Supporting Scholarly Exchange About Communication Across the Disciplines
An Open-Access Publishing Collaborative for WAC and Writing Studies
More than 250 Scholars from Six Continents
A global network of experts collaborating to advance open-access publications about writing instruction and writing processes.
Free Access to Scholarly Publications
More than 4800 Published Authors
An international community of authors dedicated to sharing impactful, peer-reviewed research in writing and literacy.
A Wealth of Resources for Instructors
We provide practical, web-based teaching materials to help instructors integrate writing effectively into their courses.
Explore the Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse offers more than 250 open-access, scholarly books, including original monographs and edited collections.
The Clearinghouse publishes, hosts, or provides access to the archives of more than two-dozen refereed, open-access journals.
The Clearinghouse offers video and audio resources for the WAC and writing studies communities.
The Clearinghouse and the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum sponsor awards for WAC scholarship, program development, and achievements.
More than 4,800 scholars have served as authors or editors of the open-access publications on the Clearinghouse.
WAC News
Endorse the Statement on Open‑Access Scholarly Publishing
Principles for Open-Access Scholarly Publishing has been released by the WAC Clearinghouse. The statement was developed with contributions from 17 scholars in the writing studies community and is endorsed by more than 60 individuals, publications, and organizations. The statement web page provides options for endorsing or making further contributions to the document.
Related Projects
The Clearinghouse is pleased to support the following projects.
Bale is a collaborative, open-access annotated bibliography that connects voices and texts in storytelling scholarship across rhetoric, composition, and writing studies.
The First-Year Composition Archive offers resources for scholars and teachers to explore trends, history, and pedagogy in first-year writing. The team invites faculty to share syllabi and course materials and use the archive to support course design, research, and writing instruction.
The Writing Analytics website provides resources that support the writing analytics community, including journals, conferences and conference archives, and other information relevant to the community.
CSAL, the Center for the Study of Academic Labor, is an official Colorado State University research center focused on issues related to labor policy and conditions in higher education.
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