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Bohr, Dennis J.; Rhoades, Georgia – Across the Disciplines, 2014
The Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Appalachian State University, founded in 2008, supports faculty instruction in a vertical writing curriculum which requires two courses in Composition and two in the disciplines, ensuring that students take a dedicated writing course in each year of undergraduate education. To address the challenges of…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Glossaries, Writing Instruction
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Patton, Martha Davis – Across the Disciplines, 2011
Given complaints about preparation of international students for their writing-intensive courses, a director of first-year writing and an undergraduate researcher at a Midwestern research university conducted a needs assessment based on Kaufman's model. Instruments used included a survey, interviews, and analysis of commentary on sample papers.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Students, Models, Interviews
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Dean, Christopher W. – Across the Disciplines, 2009
"Developing and Assessing an Online Research Writing Course" discusses how the Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) created a hybrid, online research writing course, Writing 50, and assessed that course. The assessment, which is at the center of this piece, was dovetailed with assessment literature in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Research Skills