Elon was well represented at WAC 2006, the Eighth International Conference on Writing Across the Curriculum, held this year at Clemson University in South Carolina May 18-20. There were representatives from the U.S. and Canada, as well as Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Great Britain, Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, and South Africa.
Jessie Kapper, English; Paula Rosinski, English; Tim Peeples, English; and Michael Strickland, English, presented a panel on “Administrative Rotations: Supporting Innovation and Collaboration in Teaching, Research, and Professional Development.”
Kapper presented a paper titled “Improving Administrative Transitions and Teaching Rotations.” Rosinski’s paper was titled “Supporting Administrative Rotations through Collaborative Research and Professional Development.” Peeples wrote a paper titled “Examining Innovative Structures for Program Administration,” and Strickland’s paper was titled “Facilitating Communication and Collaboration across Programs.”
Strickland also presented a paper with John Reilly, chemistry, “Humanizing Heisenberg: A WAC Approach to Physical Chemistry,” which covered a two course collaborative experiment they conducted incorporating intensive writing into chemistry.