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Download full textSiebert, Debbie L. – 1996
Many educators and researchers are discussing a shift in national education from an "instruction" paradigm emphasizing measuring inputs and providing instruction to a "learning" paradigm emphasizing outputs and producing learning. The question is how can Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) smoothly shift educational paradigms.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedStout, Barbara R.; Magnotto, Joyce N. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
Survey responses from 401 community colleges show that many of these two-year, open-admissions institutions have developed writing-across-the-curriculum programs that address the special needs of their faculty and students. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Direct linkClick, Benjamin A. L., III – New Directions for Higher Education, 1996
Outlines three major approaches to writing instruction (expressive, cognitive, and social); examines areas in which faculty, employers, and higher education policymakers agree and disagree about necessary writing skills; describes institutional structures that support writing, including writing centers, course offerings,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Classroom Techniques, College Curriculum, College Instruction
Stanley, Linda C., Ed.; Ambron, Joanna, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1991
Designed to assist program planners and administrators at community colleges in initiating a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program or determining the future direction of one already in existence, this sourcebook provides 15 articles on various aspects of WAC theory and practice. The following articles are included: (1) "History of WAC and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
