WAC
Writing Across the Curriculum across all grade levels
Humans are the only species that learn to write because this is one of the most productive ways for us to learn anything. When we incorporate different modalities and integrate thinking by association, it results in optimal learning with superior retention. WAC engages, inspires, and transfers the skills learned in Language Arts Class across other disciplines. Writing in this way empowers students to create and excel. It is the optimal approach to gain mastery and life-long benefits for students, especially those who favor science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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This strategy facilitates integration across the complement of subjects that are studied in school and transfers directly to tertiary education. Using WAC in lessons that were designed for problem-based learning, provides students ample opportunity to achieve content mastery while exercising critical and analytical thinking skills, communicating their ideas, and writing their findings. Because this approach is well-suited for problem-based learning, it elevates students' higher-order thinking skills, and allows for gaining meta-knowledge about the knowledge they discovered. At the end of the day, not every student is destined to become an English major, and it is exactly the group of candidates who are well-positioned for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) that reap enormous benefits. Through the use of WAC methods, all students are well practiced and positioned to transfer their writing skills to any discipline and ensure that it is curated and tailored to their audience or purpose. The long-term benefits are well-documented in scholarly articles. WAC practices are slow in filtering downwards to secondary- and elementary level education.
Overall, Write Across the Curriculum fosters academic growth, critical thinking, effective communication, and transferable skills. By integrating writing into various subject areas, educators help students become more proficient and confident writers while deepening their understanding of subject matter across the curriculum.