Office of the Registrar - General Info. Its mission is to enhance the culture of literacy across campus at all academic levels and in all subject areas.
Literacy is a complex matter involving the accessing, understanding, and use of information.
In an age that relies increasingly on the transference and transformation of information, it is important that all members of a university community have the learning support necessary for strengthening communication and interpretation skills of all kinds. WAC at UPEI encourages continuity of attention to student writing beyond the first writing courses. Moreover, because it uses techniques that focus on the intersections of what students know and what they are ready to learn, WAC is a powerful way to gain insight into student learning processes while improving learning outcomes. WAC also addresses writing and learning in all subject areas, because it recognizes that each discipline carries its own discourse conventions its own ways of knowing and communicating. WAC workshops also provide a dynamic means for building faculty and student community through collaboration and exchange about matters of writing, teaching, and learning.