Terry Myers Zawacki has many years of experience in WAC program administration and development. Terry Zawacki has directed the WAC program at George Mason since 1998, administers the writing center, and cochairs the university writing assessment group. She has published extensively on writing in the disciplines and the teaching of writing. An article she coauthored with Chris Thaiss describing the first phase of research for this book appeared in ALT DIS (Boynton/Cook, 2002).