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"Freeing Students to Do Their Best": Examining Writing in First-Year Seminars
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Thaiss, Chris; Moloney, Kara; Chaozon-Bauer, Pearl – Across the Disciplines, 2016
First-Year Seminars (FYS) are among the high-impact practices described by AAC&U. We studied the long-standing First-Year Seminar Program at our public research university for the ways in which writing assignments--individualized for each seminar--help faculty and students achieve program objectives in critical and analytical thinking, the…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Writing (Composition), State Universities
Reconstructing the Concept of Academic Motivation: A Gaming Symposium as an Academic Site for Critical Inquiry
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Barron, Nancy Guera; Gruber, Sibylle; Pfannenstiel, Amber Nicole – Across the Disciplines, 2016
In this article, we show how discussions of creating high-impact learning experiences led to the Undergraduate Videogame Symposium, a public venue where students from all disciplines presented their disciplinary learning to a non-disciplinary audience. After providing an introduction to the learning principles emphasized by the Interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Participant Observation, Undergraduate Students
Trends, Vibes, and Energies: Building on Students' Strengths in Visual Composing
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Kurtyka, Faith – Across the Disciplines, 2015
This article examines the composing practices of two members of a social sorority who use visual images on the media of Tumblr and YouTube to teach potential new members about the kind of sorority experience they will have. From interviews with these composers and analyses of the artifacts they create, I distill three composing principles used to…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Student Experience, Visual Aids, Training Methods
Connected, Disconnected, or Uncertain: Student Attitudes about Future Writing Contexts and Perceptions of Transfer from First Year Writing to the Disciplines
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Driscoll, Dana Lynn – Across the Disciplines, 2011
Transfer, or how much knowledge from one context is used or adapted in new contexts, is a longstanding issue for researchers and teachers of writing in a variety of disciplines. Transfer is of particular concern when examining how effective first-year writing is in preparing students with a foundation for their disciplinary coursework. This…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Student Attitudes, College Freshmen
"Striking While the Iron Is Hot." A Writing Fellows Program Supporting Lower-Division Courses at an American University in the UAE
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Ronesi, Lynne – Across the Disciplines, 2011
US-based writing fellows programs have traditionally placed writing fellows in upper-division courses to support student writing beyond first-year composition, given that student writing skills become more developed in the context of genre- or discipline-based writing. The author describes a writing fellows program at the American University of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
The Pittsburgh Study of Writing
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Bartholomae, David; Matway, Beth – Across the Disciplines, 2010
This essay presents results from a comprehensive study of writing in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh. It is in two sections. The first section reports on interviews with faculty from across the disciplines in the School of Arts and Sciences; the second reports finding from student focus groups and from an extensive…
Descriptors: Interviews, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Focus Groups