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The Translingual Challenge: Boundary Work in Rhetoric & Composition, Second Language Writing, and WAC/WID
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Hall, Jonathan – Across the Disciplines, 2018
This article applies the perspective of "boundary work," an approach originating in science studies, to relations between the disciplines of Second Language Writing (SLW) and rhetoric and composition (R&C), especially to controversies surrounding the concept of translingualism. Boundaries both separate and connect, a dual potential…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Rhetoric, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
"A Way to Talk about the Institution as Opposed to Just My Field": WAC Fellowships and Graduate Student Professional Development
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Cripps, Michael J.; Hall, Jonathan; Robinson, Heather M. – Across the Disciplines, 2016
The teaching assistantship is a venerable model for funding graduate studies, staffing undergraduate courses, and providing pedagogical support for emerging college and university instructors. In this article, we present a variation of this model of graduate student support: the WAC Fellowship at the City University of New York. Using survey data…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Fellowships, Graduate Students, Professional Development
Lessons for WAC/WID from Language Learning Research: Multicompetence, Register Acquisition, and the College Writing Student
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Hall, Jonathan; Navarro, Nela – Across the Disciplines, 2011
This article is a collaboration between WAC/WID and second language acquisition (SLA) specialists. It examines alternate disciplinary notions of the place of writing among other skills and adapts concepts from SLA theory and pedagogy with the goal of providing new interdisciplinary options for WAC/WID research and classroom practice.
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Second Language Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
Plagiarism across the Curriculum: How Academic Communities Can Meet the Challenge of the Undocumented Writer
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Hall, Jonathan – Across the Disciplines, 2005
Student plagiarism occurs in all academic disciplines, and so, for those of us involved with Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing In the Disciplines programs, the first thing we have to admit is: yes, it is our problem. It's everybody's problem, at bottom, of course, but WAC/WID directors are ideally positioned to offer both new conceptual…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Plagiarism, Prevention