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=Writing Across the Curriculum=

Writing Across the Curriculum, or WAC, as it is known is an educational reform movement that focuses on the importance of writing beyond the confines of the composition or English classroom into all areas of a student's academic journey. The success of the program and its resiliency in an ever-changing world of education correlates directly to the simplicity of its principles as outlined in //Language Connections//:

1) Communication education (primarily writing, but including reading, speaking, and listening) is the responsibility of the entire academic community.

2) Such education must be integrated across departmental boundaries.

3) It must be continuous during all four years of undergraduate education.

In addition, a "comprehensive language program must incorporate the several roles language plays in education: to communicate, to learn and to form values" (ix).

While there is a continuous debate about the quantitative value of this program, its presence on a variety of college campuses over the past thirty years attests, in some fashion, to its importance in the field of composition studies.