JMU Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication - WRTC

Collaboration in action! Students in Dr. Meghalee Das’s WRTC 103: Rhetorical Reading and Writing course partnered with consultants-in-training from Dr. Emily Bouza’s WRTC 336: Writing Consultation course at the University Writing Center for an engaging peer review session. WRTC 336 students provided thoughtful feedback to WRTC 103 students on their annotated bibliography drafts, creating a meaningful exchange between writers and emerging consultants. This cross-course collaboration strengthened students' revision skills while giving consultants-in-training valuable, real-world experience. A great example of learning through community and practice!

We're so proud of Joni Hayward Marcum, whose chapter "Recentering Writing Centers to Address the Hidden GenAI Curriculum" has just been published in Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations, a new open-access collection from the WAC Clearinghouse!

Co-authored with Lisa Bell of Utah Valley University, Joni's chapter explores how writing centers are uniquely positioned to help students develop AI literacy—not just surface-level use, but the layered literacies and often invisible foundations that make meaningful and ethical use of generative AI possible.

The full book is free to read at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/generating/. Congratulations, Joni!