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Terry Zawacki

DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY WRITING CENTER

Dr. Terry Myers Zawacki directs the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program and the University Writing Center and, as an English faculty member, regularly teaches nonfiction writing, writing ethnography, freshman and advanced composition, and the teaching of composition. She has just finished co-authoring, with Chris Thaiss, Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life, due out in March from Heinemann Press. Also forthcoming is an article on opening writing centers on two new campuses entitled “Expanding the Center: A Narrative about Resources, Roles, and the Right Tutors” for the collection Marginal Words/Marginal Works.

In addition, she served as editorial consultant and writer for the Instructors Annotated 6th Edition of The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker, and, with the assistance of Scott Berg and several writing center tutors, provided material for a writing center perspective in the new student edition of the same handbook.

Other publications include articles on writing assessment, writing in the disciplines, writing in learning communities, and feminism and composition. She has co-authored three WAC-focused articles: "How Portfolios for Proficiency Help Shape a WAC Program" with Chris Thaiss in WAC and Program Assessment; "Is It Still WAC: Writing in Learning Communities” with Ashley Williams in WAC for the New Millennium; and “Questioning Alternative Discourses: Reports from Across the Disciplines” with Chris Thaiss in Alt Dis: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Her essay "Recomposing as a Woman--An Essay in Different Voices" appeared in College Composition and Communication in February 1992 and has been reprinted in Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. An article revisiting that early essay--"Telling Stories: The Subject Is Never Just Me"--appeared in Questioning Authority: Stories Told in School.

Since 2003, Dr. Zawacki has served as Section editor for the Writing Fellows page of the online National WAC Clearinghouse housed at Colorado State. She edits Writing at Center, George Mason’s WAC/Writing Center newsletter.

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