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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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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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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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Kinkead, Joyce – Across the Disciplines, 2018
This article describes an assessment project that analyzed syllabi approved for a communication intensive (CI) requirement in a general education program. As such, it is a first step in a more comprehensive assessment. The article suggests that it is important to ensure that inputs are evaluated prior to an evaluation of outcomes. The assessment…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Egege, Sandra; Vered, Karen Orr – Across the Disciplines, 2019
It is commonly accepted in the academy that developing a critical thinking capacity and related capabilities will make students more effective thinkers and writers, and that these are desirable traits for graduates to have no matter what path they take after graduation. While most academics agree that critical thinking is an essential component of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning, Inquiry
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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
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Herrington, Anne J.; Stassen, Martha L. A. – Across the Disciplines, 2016
In fall 2010, the University of Massachusetts Amherst instituted a new upper-division General Education requirement, the Integrative Experience (IE), designed to help students integrate the various components of their undergraduate experience and reflect upon their learning and development as a result of those experiences, both key dimensions of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, General Education, Required Courses
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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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Anderson, Paul; Anson, Chris M.; Gonyea, Robert M.; Paine, Charles – Across the Disciplines, 2016
This article reports on a study that suggests ways that Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines (WAC/WID) programs can increase the effectiveness of their efforts, including implementation of writingintensive courses, which are one of the Association of American Colleges and Universities' High-Impact Educational Practices. The…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction
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Marquez, Loren – Across the Disciplines, 2015
Just as WAC pedagogy and writing studies both stress the ways that writing and communication practices can act as both heuristics and products of genre-based, discipline- specific knowledge, in much the same way, performance, too, can be used as a heuristic and as a product and should be more fully explored in WAC theory and pedagogy. This article…
Descriptors: Performance, Interdisciplinary Approach, Heuristics, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Wingard, Joel; Geosits, Angela – Across the Disciplines, 2014
Although teacher commentary on student papers and students' revisions have been investigated separately, the relationship between commentary and revision has not been much studied. Such a gap in the research leaves the nature of the progression from effective commentary to substantive revision obscure. This article describes a mixed method study,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
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Basgier, Christopher – Across the Disciplines, 2014
Much of the foundational scholarship in writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines privileges pedagogies that introduce students to disciplinary writing. Recent scholarship, however, suggests that some faculty members do not want to teach disciplinary writing to their students, particularly in general education courses that cater…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Literary Genres, Audience Awareness
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Szymanski, Erika Amethyst – Across the Disciplines, 2014
In this study, I present an analysis of instructor comments on assignments written for upper-division courses in the biological sciences as a window into current practices around teaching science writing to major students. My results demonstrate that, while the overwhelming majority of instructors respond primarily to lower order issues of grammar…
Descriptors: Spelling, Syntax, Feedback (Response), Biology
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Gogan, Brian – Across the Disciplines, 2013
Recent considerations of threshold concepts in the rhetoric and writing studies discipline fail to consider the role that reading plays in the learning of student writers. This article reports results from a three-part, two-year, empirical study of seventy-five learners enrolled across four sections of a writing-intensive course. The course…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Reading Writing Relationship, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Jamieson, Sandra – Across the Disciplines, 2013
A comparison of published statements about the source-use skills of sophomores in the 1990s and those revealed by the more recent Citation Project study of researched writing suggests that many of the assumptions driving pedagogy, policy, and curricula need to be revised and that faculty working across the disciplines should work with students on…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Information Sources, Reading Skills, Citations (References)
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