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Herrington, Anne J.; Stassen, Martha L. A. – Across the Disciplines, 2016
In fall 2010, the University of Massachusetts Amherst instituted a new upper-division General Education requirement, the Integrative Experience (IE), designed to help students integrate the various components of their undergraduate experience and reflect upon their learning and development as a result of those experiences, both key dimensions of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, General Education, Required Courses
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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)
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Jensen, Amber – Across the Disciplines, 2012
A pilot program in a public high school positions experienced student writing center tutors to become WAC liaisons who foster writing across the curriculum by raising questions, identifying needs, and providing support to their teachers with the goal of strengthening writing instruction school-wide. This article discusses the background and…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Writing Across the Curriculum, Student Writing Models, Pilot Projects
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Zawacki, Terry Myers; Reid, E. Shelley; Zhou, Ying; Baker, Sarah E. – Across the Disciplines, 2009
The WAC director, composition director, director of Institutional Assessment (OIA), and WAC/OIA liaison describe the programmatic "needs" and "wants" they balanced in the plan they collaboratively designed to respond to a state mandate for "value-added" writing assessment. To satisfy this mandate, as they explain,…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Value Added Models, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests
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Anson, Chris M.; Dannels, Deanna – Across the Disciplines, 2009
Implementation of communication-across-the-curriculum initiatives has outpaced their systematic assessment, leaving many stakeholders wondering whether faculty and students are benefiting from the emphasis on writing, speaking, and other communicative media in discipline-based courses and curricula. Increasing interest in assessment, however, has…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Communication Skills, Program Implementation, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Blumner, Jacob; Fritz, Francis; Wice, Sarah – Across the Disciplines, 2007
This article describes a model for student/faculty collaboration in WAC development--students tutoring faculty on drafts of the writing assignments they have designed for their own students. While writing center scholarship is student-centered and invites student participation, Writing Across the Curriculum scholarship and implementation remains…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assignments
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Halasz, Judith; Brinckner, Maria – Across the Disciplines, 2006
Faculty resistance to Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is an issue that has been recognized by WAC program directors and practitioners for decades, yet it remains unresolved. Perhaps the problem is not resistance per se, but how we interpret and react to it. Faculty resistance is typically viewed as an impediment to the pedagogical change WAC…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, College Faculty, Resistance (Psychology), Teacher Attitudes