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The First-Year Composition Archive is supported by the WAC Clearinghouse. You can find additional resources for researchers, scholars, teachers, and writers in the Clearinghouse's WAC Repository.
The First-Year Composition Archive is supported by faculty members affiliated with writing programs at the following institutions:
The First-Year Composition Archive is committed to promoting a culture of ethical use.
The First-Year Composition Archive is committed to promoting a culture that values all people.
The Archive supports the Colorado State University land-acknowledgment statement, which honors the ties of Indigenous people to land on which the University operates.
Welcome to the First-Year Composition Archive. The resources on this site are presented in support of writers, writing teachers, and writing programs by a group of volunteers from several universities. For more information about the Archive or to join our efforts, please contact us at [email protected].
As the archive evolves, we hope to engage the broader community by instituting an advisory board and inviting additional reviewers.
We hope this archive serves as an inspiration for your own first-year composition course design. Additionally, this archive serves as a research repository about syllabi, assignment, and course material design. As such, we welcome the submission of both current and historical curricular materials that have been used in the past. As a field, we have much to learn. Ideally, teachers/scholars can use these syllabi, assignment sheets, and course materials as rhetorical tools for study to benefit student writers across the curriculum.
To fully engage the resources in this archive, use the links above to learn how to search for and post syllabi, assignments, and course materials. If you choose to use portions of or complete assignments, we thank you for citing this archive as your source.
Here are different ways to frame your contributions for your institution:
Professional service Your contributions to the archive contribute to the professional development of teaching assistants, new faculty members, and experienced instructors seeking inspiration. They also serve researchers tracking trends across institutions, conducting archival research, and identifying conventions in the discipline.
Teaching The development of teaching materials for use by other teachers extends teaching beyond the individual classroom.
Scholarship The development of pedagogical materials, including syllabi, assignments, and other course materials, constitutes scholarship in teaching and learning, and the national distribution of that material can be regarded as publication.