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Developing Communication as a Graduate Outcome: Using "Writing across the Curriculum" as a Whole-of-Institution Approach to Curriculum and Pedagogy
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Harper, Rowena; Vered, Karen Orr – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Communication is widely recognised as an important capability for university graduates [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2013). "OECD skills outlook 2013: First results from the survey of adult skills." Author. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264204256-en]. Yet, research suggests that it is often not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Higher Education
Extending the Principles of Intensive Writing to Large Macroeconomics Classes
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Docherty, Peter; Tse, Harry; Forman, Ross; McKenzie, Jo – Journal of Economic Education, 2010
The authors report on the design and implementation of a pilot program to extend the principles of intensive writing outlined by W. Lee Hansen (1998), Murray S. Simpson and Shireen E. Carroll (1999) and David Carless (2006) to large macroeconomics classes. The key aspect of this program was its collaborative nature, with staff from two specialist…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Macroeconomics, Economics Education, Pilot Projects