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Parrish, Juli; Hesse, Doug; Bateman, Geoffrey – Across the Disciplines, 2016
We explain how collaboratively assessing a writing-intensive general education capstone seminar constituted a high-impact practice for faculty development. Students at the University of Denver complete an Advanced Seminar taught by faculty across the curriculum. Topics and themes vary widely, as do types of assigned writing, making assessment an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Workshops, Seminars
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Henry, Jim; Baker, Tammy Haili'opua – Across the Disciplines, 2015
This case study conducted by a writing specialist and a theatre specialist examines the ways in which writing to learn and learning to write took form in a course in which the ultimate goal was a staged production for a live audience. Using naturalistic methodology that deployed both ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches to analyze the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Theater Arts, Ethnography, Autobiographies
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Hass, Michael; Osborn, Jan – Across the Disciplines, 2007
This study uses student reflections of previous success in academic writing to guide instructors as they design writing assignments. Seventy-one students in five classes responded to a questionnaire designed to help them identify particularly successful writing experiences and reflect on the circumstances, strategies, and methods they believed…
Descriptors: Student Writing Models, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Processes, Reflection
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Cross, Geoffrey A.; Wills, Katherine V. – Across the Disciplines, 2005
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to assess whether faculty writing workshops could facilitate writing in heterogeneous disciplines by linking specific, workaday writing activities (Tschudi, 1986) with Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives (1974). Multi-disciplinary faculty participating in writing-across-the-curriculum workshops…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, College Faculty, Writing Workshops, Interdisciplinary Approach