The University of Arizona's Writing Across the Curriculum recognizes the importance of writing practices in enhancing student learning, engagement, and meaning-making during and beyond academic life. We hope to facilitate a campus-wide culture of writing through the following goals:
- Affirm students’ writing development across experiences and educational opportunities
- Promote antiracist, socially just, and inclusive writing instruction for students across campus
- Facilitate reciprocal and meaningful professional development
- Support faculty in implementing evidence-based and meaningful writing instruction in their classrooms
- Integrate and connect writing curriculum across contexts with a network of stakeholders
- Develop contextually-driven assessment and research about writing at U of A as a land-grant, HSI, in the United States borderlands
By this, we support instructors with assignment design, feedback and assessment of writing, and low-stakes writing and scaffolding. This is done through a variety of resources, workshops, faculty learning communities (FLCs), webinars, individual consultations, and an antiracist WAC Faculty Fellows seminar. While Arizona’s Writing Across the Curriculum is centrally located within the University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology (UCATT), we collaborate with many offices and individuals across campus including the Office of General Education, Foundations Writing Program, the Writing Center, and many others.