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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Writing across the curriculum"”.
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Writing across the Curriculum: Case Studies of Three Content-Area Teachers
… and a shift in demographics, attitudes about writing, writing practices, writing assignments, and assessment practices of three teachers in the curriculum content areas of math, science, and social studies were investigated. Individual interviews with the teachers, observations of their …
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Writing in the Math Classroom: A Writing Across the Curriculum Project
<p>The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Interpretative Team for the Fourth Mathematics Assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) (Silver, Lindquist, Carpenter, Brown, Kouba, and Swafford, 1988) reports that performance levels for thirteen year-olds has not …
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WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: AN EXAMINATION OF THE LEGACY OF THE BULLOCK REPORT
This thesis presents an exploration of the path of writing as a cross-curricular feature of learning in the decades following the Bullock Report A Language for Life (1975). It presents the initial impact that the Bullock Report made on the educational community and the subsequent policies that came …
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Online resources for technical communication in writing across the curriculum at technological universities - a case study
Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) initiatives have begun to embrace multiple resources to aid in the evolution of writing and technology. WAC initiatives enhance the teaching of writing across the disciplines by incorporating the writing instruction directly into the discipline courses, in …
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Writing in the secondary public schools: a shared responsibility
The purpose of this study is to present a detailed, researched overview of the origin, purpose, workshop training, and practical applications concerning writing across the curriculum. Procedures followed in this study included reviewing literature on the interdisciplinary nature of writing. In …
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To Write or Not to Write: A Look at Faculty Use of Writing at a Small Liberal Arts College
… from an Ivy League institution without basic writing skills, a 2003 Chronicle of Higher Education article concluded that it is not only possible, but that it does happen. Some students are actually suing colleges and universities because they do not believe they have been taught the skills …
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DIVERSE COLLEGE WRITERS AND THE CONVERSATION ON ERROR AND STANDARDIZATION ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Standardization and the treatment of error is a central concern in the increasingly diverse college composition classroom. Writing teachers who wish to prepare students for success in the disciplines, but do not wish to be gatekeepers or guardians of a privileged variety of English, face a dilemma. …
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The Need, Feasibility, and Means of Establishing a Speech Center
According to Tom Shachtman, "the speech of too few people achieves eloquence, and that of the vast majority does not even reach a tolerable level of articulate behavior" (5). Articulate behavior has not always been a rare characteristic; from antiquity through the mid-twentieth century, the study …
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GENDER AND JOURNALS: LIFE AND TEXT IN COLLEGE COMPOSITION
<p>Since journals were introduced into the composition curriculum in the 1960's, they have become increasingly important components both of writing and writing across the curriculum courses. Yet the available literature shows we know little about the historical and social contexts of journal and …
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Understanding the rhetorical engineer
<p>The purpose of this dissertation is to describe the development of the Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering Writing Enhancement Program and its definition of good engineering writing. Based on the work with the Mechanical Engineering Faculty and the Writing Enhancement Program, it was …
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"Strands of Student Talk": Exploring Reflection in Writing-Intensive Courses Across the Curriculum
With the rise of the writing-to-learn (WTL) movement, studies on reflection and implementing reflective writing became key focal points in research on writing across the curriculum (WAC). Scholars from a wide range of disciplines have noted the benefits of implementing genres of writing that prompt …
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"This is Almost an Identity for Me": Disposition, Academic Literacy, and the Experiences of Successful Student Writers
… mixed-methods study, this dissertation explores the experiences of student writers employed in a university writing center, focusing on the dispositions - that is, the internalized values, beliefs, and practices - of those student writers. Drawing from Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus, I …
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Constructs Unique To Two Volusia County Elementary Writing Programs
… constructs of two fourth-grade elementary writing programs in Volusia County, Florida. With only the Sunshine State Standards as a guide, each district, school, or teacher must design a writing curriculum that addresses those standards, develops writers, and provides accountability. …
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in and Beyond the Writing Classroom: Teaching Writing through Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Methods
The following project investigates how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives like Students' Right to Their Own Language in writing and composition studies gets taken up in writing pedagogies. The project includes research into Gender, Race, and Identity (GRI) pedagogies as well. DEI …
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Faculty Interests - Faculty Needs: Creating Meaningful Critical Thinking Training
<p>Helping students improve their critical thinking and writing abilities is a challenge for university instructors. Although they are experts in their specific disciplines, most of them struggle when it comes to developing appropriate and successful critical thinking activities for their students. …
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The Epistemologies They Carry: An Investigation of Feminist Writing Assignments
<p>This dissertation examines feminist writing assignments as one pedagogical site that influences students’ engagement and thinking. Drawing on rhetorical genre studies, feminist pedagogy, and composition scholarship on writing assignments, I argue that because writing assignments are genres that …
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