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'''LSU Communication across the Curriculum''' is a program at Louisiana State University (LSU) that works to improve the [[Communication skills|communications skills]] of students.  This includes writing, [[public speaking]], visual and technological communication skills.  The program is a successor to the [[Writing Across the Curriculum|Writing across the Curriculum]] and Writing in the Disciplines programs.

Historically, academia has focused on improving students' writing skills,<ref name="Bazerman2009" /> but has put little emphasis on communication skills as a whole to include, incorporating oral competencies, visual literacy, and application of technological communication tools in addition to writing.<ref name="Kress" />

LSU is the only institutionalized program that equally emphasizes written, spoken, visual, and technological communication within disciplines. The LSU Communication across the Curriculum program<ref name="Bazerman1994" /><ref name="McLeod" /> has adjusted its model to benefit from the knowledge of what has and has not worked at other institutions,<ref name="Anson" /> and takes into account the rapidly changing demands of communication in the 21st century.<ref name="Hawisher" />

== External links ==
[http://www.cxc.lsu.edu LSU Communication across the Curriculum] 

==References==
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<ref name="Bazerman2009">Bazerman, Charles, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo, eds. ''Genre in a Changing World''.  West Lafayette, IN:  Parlor Press, 2009. Print.</ref>
<ref name="Kress">Kress, Gunther. ''Literacy in the New Media Age''. Routledge. NY: New York, 2003. Print.</ref>
<ref name="Bazerman1994">Bazerman, Charles and David R. Russell, eds. ''Landmark Essays on Writing across the Curriculum''. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1994. Print.</ref>
<ref name="McLeod">McLeod, Susan H., Eric Miraglia, Margot Soven, Christopher Thaiss eds. ''WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-Across-The-Curriculum-Programs''. 	Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2001. Print.</ref>
<ref name="Anson">Anson, Chris M., John E. Schwiebert, and Michael M. Williamson. ''Writing across the Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography''. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. Print.</ref>
<ref name="Hawisher">Hawisher, Gail E and Cynthia Selfe. ''"Becoming Literate in the Information Age: Cultural Ecologies and the Literacies of Technology."'' College Composition and Communication 55.4 (2004): 642-92. Print.</ref>
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