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Winzenried, Misty Anne – Across the Disciplines, 2016
Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) and the general education yet discipline-specific courses they often teach occupy a complex peripheral position in the university. This qualitative comparative case study investigated disciplinary TAs' identities and pedagogical strategies as they taught writing courses linked with disciplinary lecture courses at…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students
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Henry, Jim; Baker, Tammy Haili'opua – Across the Disciplines, 2015
This case study conducted by a writing specialist and a theatre specialist examines the ways in which writing to learn and learning to write took form in a course in which the ultimate goal was a staged production for a live audience. Using naturalistic methodology that deployed both ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches to analyze the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Theater Arts, Ethnography, Autobiographies
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Allan, Elizabeth G. – Across the Disciplines, 2013
Recent initiatives in WAC/WID and CxC/CAC programs have emphasized the need to support multimodal composing in writing studies and in other academic disciplines. This ethnographic case study examines the academic multimodal composing practices of undergraduate students in the visually-based discipline of architecture. The results of this study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Architectural Education, Studio Art, Rhetoric
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Paxton, Moragh – Across the Disciplines, 2011
This article focuses on the methodology for an academic literacies research project in an Integrated Content and Language (ICL) collaboration in economics and the ways in which the findings from the research contributed to further development and expansion of the ICL endeavour. The research was conducted independently rather than collaboratively…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Content Area Writing, Economics