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Re-Inventing the Modern University with WAC: Postmodern Composition as Cultural and Intellectual History
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Samuels, Robert – Across the Disciplines, 2004
Many recent authors have examined the new role that Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) programs are playing in the rethinking of academic culture and discourse at contemporary universities. In this essay, the author argues that the WAC movement is centered on an understanding of knowledge as being intertextual, interdisciplinary, dialogical,…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing (Composition), Postmodernism, Academic Discourse