Project Objectives
The objectives of the Project are to
(1) build a network of teachers and scholars from many countries who will contribute and keep in contact about their work in this field; this network will be built using the International Network of Writing-across-the-Curriculum Programs/WAC Clearinghouse tools;
(2) gather as much data as we can through surveys, interviews, and meetings. (As of May 2009, we have received information from approximately 360 scholars in regard to some 330 institutions from more than 50 countries outside the US and Canada.)
A second component of the Mapping Project focuses on WAC/WID program development and change at U.S. and Canadian institutions (responses from 1350 institutions by June 2008)
(3) Future objectives of the Mapping Project include publication and presentation of results by members of the collaborative in a range of venues internationally. Informational and/or data-gathering sessions devoted to the Mapping Project in 2007-09 have included these at the following conferences:
- International Network of WAC Programs (INWAC) meeting at Conference on College Composition and Communication (New York), March 2007
- European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing (EATAW) Conference (Bochum, Germany), June 2007
- International "Writing Research Across Borders" Conference (Santa Barbara, California, US), February 2008
- Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)(New Orleans, Louisiana, US), April 2008 (featured presentation given by Tiane Donahue, U. of Maine; Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams, Coventry U.; Terry Myers Zawacki, George Mason U.; Tara Porter, U. of California-Davis; Chris Thaiss, U. of California-Davis, chair)
- Ninth International Conference on Writing across the Curriculum (Austin, Texas, US), May 2008
- European Writing Centers Association Conference (Freiburg, Germany), June 2008
- CCCC, San Francisco, March 2009
- Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW), Ottawa, May 2009
- EATAW, Coventry, UK, June-July 2009