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Teresa Thonney – College Teaching, 2024
This article describes the results of a survey of community college instructors who were asked about the writing they assign in non-English courses. The 171 respondents, representing 140 colleges, identified the kinds of writing they assign and the challenges that come with assigning writing. These challenges included finding time to grade…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Writing Instruction
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Solaire A. Finkenstaedt-Quinn; Jennifer A. Schmidt-McCormack; Field M. Watts; Anne Ruggles Gere; Ginger V. Shultz – Across the Disciplines, 2023
Undergraduate writing fellows play an important role in administering writing assignments in writing-intensive courses. At the University of Michigan, the MWrite program was designed to support the implementation of writing-to-learn (WTL) assignments in STEM courses. Within MWrite, writing fellows are a primary instructional resource for students…
Descriptors: Fellowships, Undergraduate Study, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments
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Andrea D. Merry; John A. Means; Tim E. Hall – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
In this laboratory activity, students were tasked with determining the heat of combustion for each of three common sugar substitutes: saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose. The heats of combustion were determined via three different methods: bomb calorimetry, heats of formation derived from semiempirical calculations, and tabulated average bond…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Laboratory Experiments, Equipment
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Qianqian Zhang-Wu; Alison Stephens; Neal Lerner – Composition Studies, 2023
Our research explores the meaningful writing experiences of 325 undergraduate students who self-identify as multilingual. Through qualitative coding of open-ended survey data, we found that respondents considered their writing meaningful when it allowed them to make personal and relevant connections and learn new skills and strategies. Our…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Multilingualism, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments
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Baker, Jayne; Evans-Tokaryk, Tyler – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
Universities across Canada and elsewhere have a longstanding focus on improving students' writing skills, including for the purpose of fostering better learning. In this paper, we present findings from two sources of data--a discursive analysis and student survey--exploring the impact of writing instruction and support in the context of a required…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Research Methodology, Courses
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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
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Brock, Caroline; Sanchez, Ninive; Sharpe, Deanna L. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
This study examines how seventeen writing intensive instructors at a Midwestern, public university used writing as a mode of learning about complex, sensitive, and challenging issues across the disciplines. For their students, the pen effectively became a bridge to the development of critical thinking skills, greater self-awareness, and a deeper…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Faculty, Writing Instruction, Diversity
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D. Adam Cletzer; Keisha Avery; Laura Hasselquist – NACTA Journal, 2022
Written communication skills are often among the most important applied skills sought by employers when hiring graduates of colleges of agriculture. However, recent reports cite a gap between employers' expectations and graduates' levels of preparedness in key applied skills, among them "effective written communication." One critical…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Apprehension, Grammar
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Cisco, Jonathan – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
Students face challenging texts and concepts across the disciplines in higher education, and many students lack the reading skills and strategies to make sense of them. The aim of the small study described in this article was to explore the benefits, if any, of the difficulty paper, a written formative assessment that asks students to explore…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Formative Evaluation, Content Area Reading
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Danielewicz, Jane; Jack, Jordynn; Hall, Ashley; Singer, Sarah Ann; Stuemke, Emi; Ware, Jennifer – Composition Forum, 2021
As WPAs at a research institution without a WAC program, we embarked on this project to learn about the types of writing prompts faculty across the disciplines assign and their expectations for student writing. Although our first-year composition program is genre-based and focuses on teaching for transfer, we did not know what genres other faculty…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, Writing Across the Curriculum, College Faculty
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Williams, Julie Ann Stuart; Schutts, Joshua; Gallamore, Kristine; Amaral, Nicholas – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
This article examines a manageable approach that provides students with significant opportunities to write and improve their writing over time in an introductory quantitative business course. The study examines six elements of written communication skills, as evidenced by assessment data from memorandum assignments administered following…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Writing Skills, Communication Skills, Business Skills
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Piekut, Anke – Education Inquiry, 2018
Since the reform of Upper Secondary School in 2005 in Denmark, genre writing has been mandatory in the L1 subject. In the predefined genres, argumentative reasoning, textual analysis and disciplinary knowledge are given high priority, whereas creative or narrative reasoning and writing are not part of the curriculum. In this article, the writer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Writing (Composition), Literary Genres
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Leon, Adele – Across the Disciplines, 2020
Studies examining writing as a High-Impact Education Practice (HIP) have focused primarily on writing in terms of major project assignments, thus directing attention away from the promising high impacts that low-stakes writing (LSW) assignments have on student learning. This study piloted assigning LSW in two MBA classes to test the extent to…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Writing Assignments, College Faculty
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Rollins, Anna; Lillivis, Kristen – Composition Forum, 2018
Students who receive instruction in discipline-specific communication perform better in introductory and upper-level STEM courses. In this study, researchers investigate how writing center intervention can aid STEM faculty in revising assignment rubrics and conveying to students the discourse conventions and expectations for writing tasks. The…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Revision (Written Composition), Cooperation, STEM Education
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Kane, Danielle; Otto, Kristin – Teaching Sociology, 2018
We argue that the literature on critical thinking in sociology has conflated two different skill sets: critical sociological thinking and higher-level thinking. To begin to examine how sociologists weigh and cultivate these skill sets, we interviewed 20 sociology instructors and conducted a content analysis of 26 assignments. We found that while…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Educational Objectives, Writing Assignments
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