Terry Myers Zawacki 


George Mason University

Director, University Writing Center and Writing Across the Curriculum.
Assistant Professor, Department of English


 

112 Robinson A.  MSN 2G8.  (703)993-1187.  tzawacki@gmu.edu


Dr. Terry Myers Zawacki has been teaching and administering programs at George Mason University since 1987. In 1996, she become director of the University Writing Center, and, in 1998, combined those responsibilities with oversight of the university's highly ranked Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program. As faculty in English, she teaches graduate courses in composition theory and pedagogy and undergraduate courses in writing ethnography, nonfiction writing, and first year and advanced composition. She serves on the Composition and WAC Committees, the English Undergraduate Committee, and co-chairs the university Writing Assessment Group with the director of the Institutional Assessment. She is also a faculty member in Women and Gender Studies.

Her publications include Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life, co-authored with Chris Thaiss, published in 2006 by Heinemann Press. Other publications include articles on writing assessment, writing in the disciplines, writing in learning communities, and feminism and composition. Among her WAC-focused articles are: "How Portfolios for Proficiency Help Shape a WAC Program" in WAC and Program Assessment,"Is It Still WAC: Writing in Learning Communities” in WAC for the New Millennium, and “Questioning Alternative Discourses: Reports from Across the Disciplines” in Alt Dis: Alternative Discourses and the Academy, all co-authored; and “Expanding the Center: A Narrative about Resources, Roles, and the Right Tutors” in writing center-focused collection Marginal Words/Marginal Works. 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 entitled "Telling Stories: The Subject Is Never Just Me"appeared in Questioning Authority: Stories Told in School.  Forthcoming is a co-authored article on writing assessment for a volume being published by the Association of Institutional Researchers.

Since 2003, Dr. Zawacki has served as Section editor for the Writing Fellows page of the online International WAC Clearinghouse housed at Colorado State. At Mason, she edits Writing @ Center, a WAC/Writing Center newsletter, available online at http://wac.gmu.edu/program/Newsletter/newsletter.html.  

 

English 615: The Teaching of Composition
English 697: Theories of Composition
English 311: Writing Ethnography
English 309: Nonfiction Writing
English 302: Advanced Writing for Social Science
English 101 linked to Psychology 100
English 101: Freshman Composition Summer 2007
English 101:MT4: Freshman Composition Linked to History 100