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Direct linkMiller, 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
Cavazos, Alyssa G.; Hebbard, Marcela; Hernández, José E.; Rodriguez, Crystal; Schwarz, Geoffrey – Across the Disciplines, 2018
Considering the need for writing and language programs to develop translingual and transdisciplinary pedagogies for teacher development at the graduate level (Canagarajah, 2016; Williams & Rodrigue, 2016), the authors examine the design of a multilingual pedagogy professional development series for first-year Spanish and Writing teaching…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Writing Across the Curriculum, Faculty Development
Fahler, Valentina; Bazerman, Charles – Across the Disciplines, 2019
This study examines the intellectual consequences of writing about data in relation to disciplinary concepts. We collected and studied written assignments from sixteen students in which they had to analyze data provided by the instructor in a general education linguistics course. We also surveyed them at the beginning, middle, and end of the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Prior Learning, Language Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Patton, Martha Davis; Taylor, Summer Smith – Across the Disciplines, 2013
This study examines the writing of 30 engineering students, faculty response, students' reading of the response, subsequent revision, and faculty evaluation to ask what factors contribute to constructive conversation about writing. It affirms previous research that suggests engineering faculty do not provide the facilitative commentary widely…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Engineering Education
Freedman, Leora – Across the Disciplines, 2013
A reading-writing initiative began in 2011-12 at the University of Toronto as a partnership between an East Asian Studies (EAS) department and an English Language Learning (ELL) Program. In this institution, students are expected to enter into scholarly discussions in their first year essays, yet many (both native English speakers and non-native…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Foreign Countries, Asian Studies, English (Second Language)
