If you’ve completed WRAC certification but would like to keep reading and learning, there are many resources available.
If you were certified a while ago, we highly recommend this open-access book:
- Writing Expertise: A Research-Based Approach to Writing and Learning Across Disciplines, by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle (2023)
Here are a few classic, foundational readings that will give you some grounding in WAC history.
- David Russell’s “Writing Across the Curriculum in Historical Perspective” (1990)
- Janet Emig’s “Writing as a Mode of Learning” (1977)
This page provides a good list of sources related to WAC/WID history and theory. It’s housed on a website devoted to CUNY-wide WAC resources, so there are other materials you can access from this site as well.
If you want to do your own research on a particular issue related to WAC/WID, the WAC Clearinghouse hosted by Colorado State University is a good place to start.
See below for some teaching resources designed by CUNY Writing Fellows. These are things you could share with your students, or they might give you ideas about how to present this material.

