A recent educational movement that views writing at the center of the academic experience in all disciplines.
Writing is used as a tool for learning as well as for communication.
Therefore, writing should be a component in all college classes, rather than being isolated to composition courses in English departments. Although writing continues to be viewed as central to teaching and learning, it is joined in an interactive social process with other forms of communication to promote critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving within and across disciplines. Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum. A term coined by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young to highlight the evolving intersections between the communication across the curriculum movement and new information technologies. ECAC recognizes that e-mail, synchronous and asynchronous conferencing, multimedia, and the World Wide Web offer new modes of communication to construct and enhance learning within and across disciplines.