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Embracing the "Always-Already": Toward Queer Assemblages for Writing across the Curriculum Administration
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Jonathan J. Rylander; Travis Webster – College Composition and Communication, 2020
Framed in three guiding claims about relationships between Writing Across the Curriculum and queer theories, this article offers Jasbir Puar's theory of "queer assemblage" as a model for rearticulating WAC administration.
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Social Theories, Sexual Orientation, Writing Instruction
The Teaching for Transfer Curriculum: The Role of Concurrent Transfer and Inside-and Outside-School Contexts in Supporting Students' Writing Development
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Kathleen Blake Yancey; Matthew Davis; Liane Robertson; Kara Taczak; Erin Workman – College Composition and Communication, 2019
Drawing on the Teaching for Transfer (TFT) writing curriculum, this study documents how students in writing courses at four different institutions transferred writing knowledge and practice concurrently into other sites of writing, including other courses, co-curriculars, and workplaces. This research demonstrates that when students, supported by…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), College Students, Transfer of Training, Teaching Methods
Writing Assignments across the Curriculum: A National Study of College Writing
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Melzer, Dan – College Composition and Communication, 2009
In this essay I present the results of a national study of over 2,000 writing assignments from college courses across disciplines. Drawing on James Britton's multidimensional discourse taxonomy and recent work in genre studies, I analyze the rhetorical features and genres of the assignments and consider the significance of my findings through the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Audiences, Writing Instruction
Peer Review and Revising in an Anthropology Course: Lessons for Learning.
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Herrington, Anne J.; Cadman, Deborah – College Composition and Communication, 1991
Demonstrates the value of peer review by showing how it is used by students in an anthropology class. Gives educators a broader view of the role it could play in their classes. Illustrates four characteristics of peer-review exchanges as they are accomplished in the course. (MG)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation, Revision (Written Composition)
Primary Science Communication in the First-Year Writing Course
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Moskovitz, Cary; Kellogg, David – College Composition and Communication, 2005
Despite the widespread acceptance of many kinds of nonliterary texts for first-year writing courses, primary scientific communication (PSC) remains largely absent. Objections to including PSC, especially that it is not rhetorically appropriate or sufficiently rich, do not hold. We argue for including PSC and give some practical suggestions for…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Course Content