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Improving Success, Increasing Access: Bringing HIPs to Open Enrollment Institutions through WAC/WID
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Kester, Jessica; Block, Rebecca; Karda, Margaret Reinfeld; Orndoff, Harold, III – Across the Disciplines, 2016
Today, and historically, the presence of WAC/WID programs in the community college setting remains anemic when compared to Ph.D.-granting institutions. This fact is particularly troubling considering the AAC&U's research on high-impact practices and its correlation with WAC/WID theory and practice. This article empirically investigates the…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Community Colleges, Educational Practices
Writing across the College Curriculum: A Computer Assisted Model.
Weiss, Robert H. – Writing Notebook, 1989
Describes how computer technology has been incorporated into the Writing across the Curriculum Program at West Chester University, Pennsylvania. (MM)
Descriptors: College Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Program Design
What Do You Need to Start--and Sustain--a Writing-across-the-Curriculum Program?
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McLeod, Susan H.; Soven, Margot – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1991
Offers a guide to those involved in developing a writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) program to help them inform administrators about some of the basic points and know what to ask for before agreeing to take on the task. Outlines some basic procedures to follow for WAC program development. (MG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Design, Program Development, Program Implementation
Continuing Funding, Coping with Less.
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Tandy, Keith A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
Some funding is necessary to run a writing-across-the-curriculum program, but it is possible to redesign a program and keep it running when outside funding ends. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Financial Support, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Negotiated Independence: How a Canadian Writing Program Became a Centre.
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Kearns, Judith; Turner, Brian – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1997
Describes the transformation of a writing program at a small Canadian university from a subdivision of the English department into a separate, interdisciplinary Centre for Academic Writing. Describes the origins of the program and recounts the processes of review and transition the program underwent. Notes how curricular and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Politics of Education
WAC at Century's End: Haunted by the Ghost of Fred Newton Scott.
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McLeod, Susan H. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1997
Discusses two danger signs for writing across the curriculum (WAC) program survival, dealing with their cross-curricular structure, and their heavy dependence on just one person for their health and continuation. Outlines two cases from the history of writing instruction at the University of Michigan providing a precautionary tale for both kinds…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, English Departments, Financial Support, Higher Education
Building on Realities: WAC Programs at Community Colleges.
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Stout, Barbara R.; Magnotto, Joyce N. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1991
Presents results of a survey of 121 community colleges with active writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs, focusing on basic program features (e.g., longevity, program administration, funding, WAC workshops, student support, and curricular changes), benefits of WAC, and possible impediments to WAC. (DMM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Benefits, Faculty Development, National Surveys
Writing Across the Curriculum at Community Colleges.
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Stout, Barbara R.; Magnotto, Joyce N. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
Survey responses from 401 community colleges show that many of these two-year, open-admissions institutions have developed writing-across-the-curriculum programs that address the special needs of their faculty and students. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Writing Workshops and the Mechanics of Change.
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Fulwiler, Toby – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1989
Describes the mechanics of workshops designed to introduce new ideas about teaching with writing to instructors in all subject areas. Focuses on: leader qualities; workshop content; and logistics (setting, size, time, and equipment). (MM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Process Approach (Writing), Program Administration
ESL Concerns for Writing Program Administrators: Problems and Policies.
Roy, Alice M. – Writing Program Administration, 1988
Argues that the writing program serving second-language writers requires the following: a program and courses that provide and use social context for writing and language development; teachers who know about both writing and language; and assessment that takes into account principles of language acquisition and literacy development. (JK)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
Educating Students to Write Effectively.
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Click, Benjamin A. L., III – New Directions for Higher Education, 1996
Outlines three major approaches to writing instruction (expressive, cognitive, and social); examines areas in which faculty, employers, and higher education policymakers agree and disagree about necessary writing skills; describes institutional structures that support writing, including writing centers, course offerings,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Classroom Techniques, College Curriculum, College Instruction