What does the field treat as foundational — and is that different from what we assume? These rankings reflect citation counts within the discipline's own journals, not Google Scholar's cross-disciplinary totals. An article cited 200 times across CCC, College English, and Written Communication tells a different story than one cited 200 times from linguistics or education. This is the field citing itself — the closest approximation we have to what rhetoric and composition actually considers essential reading.

1. 1
   Connected, Disconnected, or Uncertain: Student Attitudes about Future Writing Contexts and Perceptions of Transfer from First Year Writing to te Disciplines

   Dana Lynn. Driscoll 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 10 in this index
2. 2
   What We Mean When We Talk about Reading: Rethinking the Purpose and Contexts of College Reading

   Rachel Ihara et al. 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 8 in this index
3. 3
   Where to Put the Manicules: A Theory of Expert Reading

   Alilce Horning 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 6 in this index
4. 4
   Reading and Engaging Sources: What Students' use of Sources Reveals About Advanced Reading Skills

   Sandra Jamieson 2013 Across the Disciplines Cited by 5 in this index
5. 5
   How to Create High-Impact Writing Assignments That Enhance Learning and Development and Reinvigorate WAC/WID Programs: What Almost 72,000 Undergraduates Taught Us

   Paul Anderson et al. 2016 Across the Disciplines Cited by 4 in this index
6. 6
   Multimodal Communication in the University: Surveying Faculty Across Disciplines

   Gwendolynne Reid et al. 2016 Across the Disciplines Cited by 4 in this index
7. 7
   Modern Languages, Bilingual Education, and Translation Studies: The Next Frontiers in WAC/WID Research and Instruction?

   Guillaume Gentil 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
8. 8
   The Box Under the Bed: How Learner Epistemologies Shape Writing Transfer

   Dana Driscoll et al. 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
9. 9
   Internalizing Writing in the STEM Disciplines

   Ghanashyam Sharma 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
10. 10
    Re-Framing Race in Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum

    Mya Poe 2013 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
11. 11
    The (In)Visible World of Teaching Assistants in the Disciplines: Preparing TAs to Teach Writing

    Tanya Rodrigue 2012 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
12. 12
    Interdisciplinarity as a Lens for Theorizing Language/Content Partnerships

    Marie Paretti 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
13. 13
    How Faculty Attitudes and Expectations Toward Student Nationality Affect Writing Assessment

    Peggy Lindsey et al. 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
14. 14
    The Writer's Personal Profile: Student Self Assessment and Goal Setting at the Start of the Term

    Tracy Ann. Robinson et al. 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
15. 15
    Program Assessment: Process, Propagation, and Culture Change

    Monica Stitt-Bergh et al. 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
16. 16
    Reading Across the Curriculum as the Key to Student Success

    Alice Horning 2007 Across the Disciplines Cited by 3 in this index
17. 17
    WID Course Enhancements in STEM: The Impact of Adding "Writing Circles" and Writing Process Pedagogy

    Tereza Joy. Kramer et al. 2019 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
18. 18
    The Translingual Challenge: Boundary Work in Rhetoric and Composition, Second Language Writing, and WAC/WID

    Jonathan Hall 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
19. 19
    Thinking Through Difference and Facts of Nonusage: A Dialogue Between Comparative Rhetoric and Translingualism

    LuMing Mao 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
20. 20
    WAC/WID and Transfer: Towards a Transdisciplinary View of Academic Writing

    C. C. Hendricks 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
21. 21
    Using Corpus-based Instruction to Explore Writing Variation Across the Disciplines: A Case History in a Graduate-level Technical Editing Course

    Ryan K. Boettger 2016 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
22. 22
    Reading at the Threshold

    Brian Gogan 2013 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
23. 23
    Making Commitments to Racial Justice Actionable

    Rasha Diab et al. 2013 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
24. 24
    WAC: Closing Doors or Opening Doors for Second Language Writers?

    Michelle Cox 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
25. 25
    Interpersonal Stance in L1 and L2 Students' Argumentative Writing in Economics: Implications for Faculty Development in WAC/WID Programs

    Zak Lancaster 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
26. 26
    Developing and Assessing an Online Research Writing Course

    Christopher W. Dean 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
27. 27
    Writing in the Disciplines versus Corporate Workplaces: On the Importance of Conflicting Disciplinary Discourses in the Open Source Movemement and the Value of Intellectual Property

    Brian D. Ballentine 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
28. 28
    Introduction: SI: Writing Technologies and WAC: Current Lessons and Future Trends

    Karen J. Lunsford 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
29. 29
    Not Just Words Any More: Multimodal Communication Across the Curriculum

    Lillian Bridwell-Bowles et al. 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
30. 30
    The Complexities of Responding to Student Writing: or, Looking for Shortcuts via the Road of Excess

    Richard Haswell 2006 Across the Disciplines Cited by 2 in this index
31. 31
    Changing Conceptions of Writing through Situated Activity in a Geology Major

    Enrique Paz 2022 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
32. 32
    More Useful Beyond College?: The Case for a Writing in the Professions Curriculum in WAC/WID

    Rebecca Hallman Martini 2022 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
33. 33
    Unruly Practice: Critically Evaluating the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives

    Kathryn Comer et al. 2021 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
34. 34
    Reshaping Public Memory through Hashtag Curation

    Kelli R. Gill et al. 2021 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
35. 35
    The �Nature� of Ethics while (Digitally) Archiving the Other

    Bibhushana Poudyal 2021 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
36. 36
    Writing into Awareness: How Metacognitive Awareness Can Be Encouraged Through Contemplative Teaching Practices

    Kate Chaterdon 2019 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
37. 37
    Rewriting Disciplines: STEM Students' Longitudinal Approaches to Writing in (and across) the Disciplines

    Anne Rugge. Gere et al. 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
38. 38
    Languaging about Language in an Interdisciplinary Writing-Intensive Course

    Joel Heng. Hartse et al. 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
39. 39
    "We are the 'Other'":The Future of Exchange between Writing and Language Studies

    Christine Donahue 2018 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
40. 40
    Comparing Student and Instructor Perspectives on Writing: Empirical Results from the Social Work Discipline

    Christopher D. Kilgore et al. 2017 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
41. 41
    Introduction to ATD Special Issue on WAC and High-Impact Practices

    Beth Boquet et al. 2016 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
42. 42
    Engaging Sources through Reading-Writing Connections Across the Disciplines

    Ellen C. Carillo 2016 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
43. 43
    Brokering Disciplinary Writing: TAs and the Teaching of Writing Across the Disciplines

    Misty Anne. Winzenried 2016 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
44. 44
    Developing an English for Academic Purpose Course for L2 Graduate Student in the Sciences

    Jennifer Douglas 2015 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
45. 45
    Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines, Introduction

    Marilee Brooks-Gillies et al. 2015 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
46. 46
    Is WAC/WID Ready for the Transdisciplinary Research University?

    Justin K. Rademaekers 2015 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
47. 47
    The Power of Relevant Models: Using a Corpus of Student Writing to Introduce Discipinary Practices in a First Year Compsition Course

    Jack A. Hardy et al. 2015 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
48. 48
    Dissertation Genre Change as a Result of Electronic Theses and Dissertation Programs

    Kate Pantelides 2015 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
49. 49
    Creating a Culture of Communication: A Graduate-level STEM Communication Fellows Program at a Science and Engineering University

    Steve Simpson et al. 2015 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
50. 50
    Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Fostering Professional Communication Skills in a Graduate Accounting Certificate Program

    Allen Brizee et al. 2014 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index

1. 51
   The WAC Glossary Project: Facilitating Conversations Between Composition and WID Faculty in a Unified Writing Curriculum

   Dennis J. Bohr et al. 2014 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
2. 52
   Effective Comments and Revisions in Student Writing from WAC Courses

   Joel Wingard et al. 2014 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
3. 53
   Critical Race Theory Counterstory as Allegory: A Rhetorical Trope to Raise Awareness About Arizona's Ban on Ethnic Studies

   Aja Martinez 2013 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
4. 54
   Not Just for Writing Anymore: What WAC Can Teach Us About Reading to Learn

   Mary Lou. Odom 2013 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
5. 55
   Introduction: Why Anti-Racist Activism? Why Now?

   Vershawn Ashanti. Young 2013 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
6. 56
   Multimodal Rhetorics in the Disciplines: Available Means of Persuasion in an Undergraduate Architecture Studio

   Elizabeth G. Allan 2013 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
7. 57
   Writing from Experience: The Evolving Roles of Personal Writing in a Writing in the Disciplines Program

   Katherine K. Gottschalk 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
8. 58
   Writing Across Language, Disciplines, and Sources: Second Language Writers in Jordan

   Anne-Marie Pedersen 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
9. 59
   Proofs and Persuasion: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Math Students' Writing

   Patrick Bahls et al. 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
10. 60
    Lessons for WAC/WID from Language Research: Multicompetence, Register Acquisition, and the College Writing Student

    Jonathan Hall et al. 2011 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
11. 61
    The Pittsburgh Study of Writing

    David Bartholomae et al. 2010 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
12. 62
    Introduction: SI: Writing Across the Curriculum and Assessment: Activities, Programs, and Insights at the Intersection

    Ruth Kistler et al. 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
13. 63
    Developing a Culture of Writing at Virginia State University: A New Writing Emphasis

    Freddy L. Thomas 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
14. 64
    Voices at the Table: Balancing the Needs and Wants of Program Stakeholders to Design a Value-added Writing Assessment Plan

    Terry Meyers. Zawacki et al. 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
15. 65
    Profile Programs: Formative uses of Departmental Consultations in the Assessment of Communication Across the Curriculum

    Chris M. Anson et al. 2009 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
16. 66
    Challenging Our Practices, Supporting Our Theories: Writing Mentors As Change Agents Across Discourse Communities

    Joan Mullin et al. 2008 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
17. 67
    Culture Shock: Teaching Writing within Interdisciplinary Contact Zones

    Charlotte Brammer et al. 2008 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
18. 68
    Rupture and Innovation: Joint Instruction to Health Science Students in Troms�, Norway

    Ragnhild Nilsen 2007 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
19. 69
    An Emic View of Student Writing and the Writing Process

    Michael Hass et al. 2007 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
20. 70
    One More Time: Transforming the Curriculum Across the Disciplines Through Technology-Based Faculty Development and Writing-Intensive Course Redesign

    Kelley A. Shea et al. 2006 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
21. 71
    Critical Visual Literacy: Multimodal Communication Across the Curriculum

    Barb Blakely. Duffelmeyer et al. 2006 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
22. 72
    Acquiring Expertise in Discipline-Specific Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Exercise in Learning to 'Speak' Biology

    Trudy Bayer et al. 2005 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
23. 73
    Bridging Disciplinary Divides in Writing Across the Curriculum

    Geoffrey A. Cross et al. 2005 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
24. 74
    Copyright, Access and Digital Texts

    Charles Lowe 2004 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
25. 75
    Can Cross-Disciplinary Links Help Us Teach "Academic Discourse" in FYC?

    Elizabeth A. Wardle 2004 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index
26. 76
    Re-Inventing the Modern University with WAC: Postmodern Composition as Cultural and Intellectual History

    Robert Samuels 2004 Across the Disciplines Cited by 1 in this index