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Mecklenburg-Faenger, Amy; Handley, Brandi; Donnelli-Sallee, Emily – Across the Disciplines, 2022
As universities increasingly expand online education offerings, WAC directors are compelled to rethink how to make WAC training more available and accessible to a wider range of teaching personnel. In this article, we describe our unique institutional context as a liberal arts university heavily reliant on online education, and the features that…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, College Faculty, Workshops, Faculty Development
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Alharbi, Majed Abdullah; Albelihi, Hani Hamd – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
Writing across the curriculum (WAC) has been viewed as a movement that links several academic fields across various academic departments in different institutions. WAC has emerged as a powerful pedagogical tool for improving students' learning outcomes and critical thinking. While the practice of WAC as an independent learning unit is not formally…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Educational Change, College Faculty, Teaching Experience
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Lucy Bryan Malenke; Laura K. Miller; Paul E. Mabrey III; Jared Featherstone – Writing Center Journal, 2023
Writing center scholars have long debated whether writers are best served by "generalist" tutors trained in writing center pedagogy or "specialist" tutors with insider knowledge about a course's content or discipline-specific discourse conventions. A potential compromise that has emerged is training tutors in the purposes and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Writing Instruction, Tutors
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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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Sheila Windle; Leanne Johnny; Valerie Smith – TESL Canada Journal, 2024
This article reports the findings of a small-scale qualitative study aimed at exploring the academic experiences of college students (n = 11) who had previously engaged in the EAP program at a mid-sized college in Ontario. The primary objective was to unveil student perspectives on the effectiveness of the EAP writing program and to determine…
Descriptors: College Programs, English for Academic Purposes, Writing Instruction, College Students
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Michal Horton – Composition Forum, 2024
The theme course has not held a distinct place in scholarship, despite being a longstanding practice in the field; meanwhile, it has come under scrutiny in teaching for transfer (TFT) scholarship, which perceives the practice as conflicting with writing-centered approaches. In contrast, scholarship on theme courses suggests that a resilient motive…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Transfer of Training, Teacher Empowerment, Writing (Composition)
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Özer, Havva Zorluel – Composition Forum, 2021
Drawing on qualitative data gathered from interviews with twelve doctoral students in a composition program at a mid-size public university in the Northeast United States, this article documents graduate teacher-scholars' conceptual understanding of translingual pedagogy in the context of college writing instruction. I analyze and describe the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Doctoral Students, State Universities, Writing Instruction