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Doug Brent. Reinventing WAC (Again): The First-Year Seminar and Academic Literacy.

Brent, Doug. "Reinventing WAC (Again): The First-Year Seminar and Academic Literacy." CCC 57.2 (2005): 253-276.

Abstract:

Academically oriented first-year seminars can be good venues for teaching many of the concepts important to WAC programs, including extended engagement with a research topic and situated writing. A qualitative study of a first-year seminar program at the University of Calgary highlights faculty members' and students' responses.

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