AWAC Elections 2025

The 2025 AWAC elections are officially open! If you are an AWAC member, please take a few minutes to visit the elections page to vote. (You will need to have an up-to-date membership, and you will need to log in to the site).

The ballot will remain open until June 12.

Register for IWAC 2025

The Writing Across the Curriculum movement is at an inflection point. IWAC 2025 offers an opportunity to explore how best we might support the work of teachers, administrators, and students with the flexibility required to address challenging and often vexing issues and with action built on innovative and respectful approaches to teaching and learning. Please join us on the campus of Colorado State University Fort Collins in the beautiful Rocky Mountain West.

IWAC 2025: The 17th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference
WAC and the Global Future: Flexibility, Action, Innovation
July 16-19, 2025 | Colorado State University Fort Collins

Congratulations to the 2024 AWAC Research Initiative Grant recipients!

Grant Recipients

  • Lisa Sperber, Marit J. MacArthur, Sophia Minnillo, Nick Stillman, and Carl Whithaus.  Assessing the Impact of AI & Peer Feedback in Small Composition and Large Writing-Intensive Courses Across the Curriculum, University of California at Davis
  • Vanessa Garcia Vasquez. Preserving a Culture of Writing: The Oregon State University WIC Archive, Oregon State University
  • Elizabeth Caravella, Sara Riddick, Rich Shrivener, and Jason Tham. Investigating Virtual Reality and Immersive Composing Across the Disciplines. Texas Tech/York University/Worcester Polytechnic Institute

AWAC Elections 2024

The 2024 AWAC elections are officially open! If you are an AWAC member, please take a few minutes to visit the elections page to vote. (You will need to have an up-to-date membership, and you will need to log in to the site).

The ballot will remain open until May 1. Elected members will assume their new positions on July 1.

Call for Proposals: 2024 AWAC Research Initiative Grants

Proposal deadline April 30, 2024

The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC) brings together the intellectual, human, political, and economic capital of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) community to better support and grow WAC as a global intellectual and pedagogical movement. AWAC promotes initiatives that support students’ writing across their academic careers, faculty development related to student writing and writing pedagogy, and research into writing across domains (e.g. disciplines, professions, communities, and academic levels) and transnationally. In the spirit of this mission, the AWAC Research Initiative Grants support research of benefit to the WAC community.

AWAC expects to award a small set of grants ranging from $1000 to $4000. 

We especially invite applications from graduate students, early career researchers, scholars working with underrepresented groups, and those involved in international collaborations.

Eligibility and Funding Restrictions

All award recipients must be United States citizens or residents (or hold a valid US work/study visa) at the time of the award. Recipients may not be members of the AWAC Executive Board or Proposal Review Panel at the time of award, nor have received funding from AWAC in the past two years. Research Initiative Grants are for the explicit purpose of conducting research in WAC-related areas. Funds may not be used for any partisan activity (political support, donations, creation of materials in support of candidates, etc.), or in lobbying activities. Doctoral students must be in good standing at an accredited institution. Applicants must be members of AWAC at time of submission.

Application Criteria and Procedures

AWAC invites proposals for research that can contribute to our understanding of contemporary issues related to writing in academic and disciplinary spaces. Effective proposals should convey the importance of this work for the WAC community, clearly identifying how it extends existing knowledge and scholarship, and the potential application of its findings. Proposals should also articulate how this research will be disseminated, once complete, and to whom it will be shared (i.e., scholarly and public).

Though particular focus areas and methodologies are open, AWAC encourages research that is of benefit to underrepresented communities, utilizes innovative methodologies, examines conditions of labor, or could otherwise expand the scope of knowledge in the WAC community. AWAC is especially interested in applications that make explicit contributions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

Proposals should include:

  1. A cover page that contains the title of the proposal, the name(s) and full contact information of the investigator(s), and, in the event of multiple investigators, the designation of a principal contact (maximum: 1 page).
  2. A narrative of approximately 1,500 words (12-point font, 1-inch margins) that:
    1. Defines the project and clearly articulates the research questions and timeline
    2. Briefly articulates how the research is situated within the existing body of WAC knowledge and what gaps it is addressing
    3. Describes the methods and methodologies the project will draw on, showing methodological congruence with the research question(s). If working with human subjects, describes IRB status
    4. Describes the resources needed to complete the project and how this award will be used in meeting those resource-needs
    5. Identifies how the research will be disseminated when complete, to both public and scholarly communities
  3. Detailed budget form with justifications for all expenses (sample provided). Please note that all funds must be used for direct costs only (i.e., research materials, participant incentives, software, transcription, travel to research sites). Indirect costs (such as conference travel, publication fees or indexing, institutional overhead, etc.) cannot be covered by this award. Compensation for research assistants is allowed if paid directly to assistant. Identify any additional funding sources already secured that will also support this research.
  4. Include a current CV for all applicants. Doctoral students may wish to include information about coursework completed and contact information of the student’s advisor.

Awards are made to individuals, not institutions. Applicants must belong to AWAC at the time of proposal submission. There is no time requirement for research projects; a report will be required after one calendar year.

Proposals will be reviewed by the AWAC Research and Publications Committee. A summary report will be required after one year; a final report at the completion of the study. A précis of the research will be hosted on the AWAC website. 

If you have questions, please contact the Research & Publications Chairs (Tom Deans, Callie Messerschmidt) at gro.noitaicossACAW@snoitacilbuPCAWA

Proposals must be submitted by 11:59 PM, EST, on April 30, 2024, as a single email attachment—Word or PDF only to gro.noitaicossACAW@snoitacilbuPCAWA

AWAC Workshops on Grantwriting

The Research & Publications Committee of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum invites AWAC members to a series of workshops on grantwriting. Two online, synchronous sessions will be led by Elizabeth Wardle, Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication and Director, Howe Center for Writing Excellence, Miami University (Ohio). Prior to becoming an academic, Elizabeth was a fundraiser and grantwriter for non-profits. She has also taught undergraduate grantwriting courses.

This 2-part series will help participants understand possible grant funding sources and the genre of the grant proposal. Participants are encouraged but not required to attend both sessions.

Zoom links/calendar invites will be sent to registrants ahead of the sessions. Attendance is limited to AWAC members.

Part 1: The Nature of Grantwriting and How to Find Funding

March 15, 11am-noon EST

This workshop will talk about grants and the ecology of grantwriting and demonstrate where and how to find grant funding beyond the grants provided by our field’s professional organizations.

Part 2: The Genre of the Grant Proposal

March 22, 11am-noon EST

This workshop will engage participants in a genre analysis of grant proposals, with the goal of illustrating the rhetorical moves that grant proposals need to make.

Registration

Please register using our registration form.

AWAC Is Sponsoring a GSOLE Panel!

Workshops on Grantwriting

This event has been postponed to spring 2024, dates to be announced.

AWAC Research & Publications Committee invites members to a series of workshops on grantwriting.

Two online, synchronous sessions will be led by Elizabeth Wardle, Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication and Director, Howe Center for Writing Excellence, Miami University (Ohio). Prior to becoming an academic, Elizabeth was a fundraiser and grantwriter for non-profits. She has also taught undergraduate grantwriting courses.

This 2-part series will help participants understand possible grant funding sources and the genre of the grant proposal. Participants are encouraged but not required to attend both sessions.

IWAC Conference Volume CFP

Call for Proposals: 2023 AWAC Research Initiative Grants

The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC) is a professional organization that brings together the intellectual, human, political, and economic capital of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) community to better support and grow WAC as a global intellectual and pedagogical movement. AWAC promotes initiatives that support students’ writing across their academic careers, faculty development related to student writing and writing pedagogy, and research into writing across domains (e.g. disciplines, professions, communities, and academic levels) and transnationally.