Across the Disciplines Jan 2020 Open Access

Fifty Years of WAC: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?

Mike Palmquist Colorado State University ; Pam Childers ; Elaine Maimon ; Joan Mullin University of North Carolina at Charlotte ; Rich Rice Texas Tech University ; Alisa Russell Wake Forest University ; David R. Russell Iowa State University
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Across the Disciplines
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