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Miller, Elisabeth L.; Weisse, Kathleen Daly; Hughes, Bradley – Across the Disciplines, 2022
This research study of a WAC learning community focuses on instructors' behind-the-scenes decision making about assignment design. Specifically, we show how instructors use direct personal experience--as students, teachers and scholars--to approach writing assignment design, invoking these experiences to discuss the origin of their assignments and…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Decision Making, Instructional Design
Deans, Thomas – Across the Disciplines, 2022
This study reports on how a cohort of 16 especially accomplished undergraduate STEM majors narrate their literacy histories, experience learning to write in the sciences during their college years, and reflect on their priorities for writing more generally. These participants report largely positive early schooling experiences with writing;…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, High Achievement, STEM Education, Majors (Students)
Croft, James; Benjamin, Michael; Conn, Phyllis; Serafin, Joseph M.; Wiseheart, Rebecca – Across the Disciplines, 2019
This study examines student perceptions about (i) whether writing in undergraduate disciplines contributes to the development of student pre-professional identity (PPI) and (ii) how writing in such disciplines affects PPI relative to other classroom activities. The study was conducted at St. John's University in New York, which has a very diverse…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Content Area Writing, Writing (Composition), Self Concept
Driscoll, Dana Lynn; Jin, Daewoo – Across the Disciplines, 2018
This article draws upon Bergmann and Zepernick's (2007) metaphor of the box under the bed to investigate the relationship between students' epistemologies and their learning transfer in diverse contexts over undergraduate years. We present a systemic analysis of 13 students' interviews and writing samples over a five-year period, through which we…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Epistemology
Anderson, Paul; Anson, Chris M.; Gonyea, Robert M.; Paine, Charles – Across the Disciplines, 2016
This article reports on a study that suggests ways that Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines (WAC/WID) programs can increase the effectiveness of their efforts, including implementation of writingintensive courses, which are one of the Association of American Colleges and Universities' High-Impact Educational Practices. The…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction
Chemishanova, Polina; Miecznikowski, Cynthia – Across the Disciplines, 2014
This article offers a critical examination of one regional institution's endeavor to imagine, develop, and implement a sustainable campus-wide writing-intensive program. Grounded in local and institutional contexts, our narrative elucidates how WPAs at rural and regional institutions can reconcile the processes of negotiation and concession to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Bohr, Dennis J.; Rhoades, Georgia – Across the Disciplines, 2014
The Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Appalachian State University, founded in 2008, supports faculty instruction in a vertical writing curriculum which requires two courses in Composition and two in the disciplines, ensuring that students take a dedicated writing course in each year of undergraduate education. To address the challenges of…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Glossaries, Writing Instruction
Moskovitz, Cary – Across the Disciplines, 2014
This paper reports on a novel approach to providing undergraduates with feedback on STEM writing assignments via an otherwise untapped educational resource: university alumni and employees who normally play no role in the institution's educational mission. In the Volunteer Expert Reader (VER) approach, students are paired with volunteers whose…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Volunteers, Undergraduate Students, Feedback (Response)
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
Bahls, Patrick; Mecklenburg-Faenger, Amy; Scott-Copses, Meg; Warnick, Chris – Across the Disciplines, 2011
This article offers an initial analysis of the rhetorical devices used by mathematics undergraduates as they begin to write research articles in their discipline. The authors (a mathematician and three experts in composition and rhetoric) identify several such devices, including transitions and metacommentary, style and tone, use of sources, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Undergraduate Students, Writing for Publication, Content Area Writing
Geller, Anne Ellen – Across the Disciplines, 2011
This article draws on a survey of 64 self-identified multilingual faculty from across the disciplines who currently teach with writing in English at the undergraduate and graduate level. The survey asked faculty about their linguistic experiences from childhood through the present and thus offers insights about the complexity of multilingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Standard Spoken Usage, College Faculty, Writing Instruction
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
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
Dean, Christopher W. – Across the Disciplines, 2009
"Developing and Assessing an Online Research Writing Course" discusses how the Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) created a hybrid, online research writing course, Writing 50, and assessed that course. The assessment, which is at the center of this piece, was dovetailed with assessment literature in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Research Skills
Arzt, Judy; Barnett, Kristine E.; Scoppetta, Jessyka – Across the Disciplines, 2009
This article emphasizes the need for writing centers to give continued attention to online tutoring to achieve writing across curriculum (WAC) goals. The article offers a literature review covering the history and state of online tutoring and its relation to the WAC movement and writing fellows programs. We at Saint Joseph College have found that…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Tutoring, Web Based Instruction, Writing Instruction
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