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Mahaffey, Cynthia Jo – 2000
The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) initiative seeks to provide students with discipline-specific skills they will need in order to succeed, first in the university, and eventually in their chosen professional careers. This goal is accomplished in an egalitarian framework: all students are educated in the conventions of "academic writing" in a…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Ideology
