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Meghan Velez; Zackery Reed; Darryl Chamberlain; Cihan Aydiner – Thresholds in Education, 2025
In fewer than two years, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has transformed the educational experience for both students and faculty. Writing feedback and evaluation tools like MyEssayFeedback, EssayGrader, and Markr have been released with the promise that faculty will be able to focus more on teaching than simply grading. However, the…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Artificial Intelligence, Feedback (Response), Scores
Covington, David H.; And Others – Writing Program Administration, 1985
Describes a writing program conducted by a department of engineering that uses a single-subject approach to student assistance. Discusses the costs and effectiveness of the program. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Engineering, Higher Education, Program Content
Strawn, David L. – 1994
Point Loma Nazarene College in San Diego, California, provides special academic support for its provisionally admitted students through its Program Quick Start, a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project involving the fields of literature and biology. The fully accredited college provides higher education in the liberal arts and preparation for…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Writing, High Risk Students, Higher Education
Falk, Darrel R. – 1994
Point Loma Nazarene College in San Diego, California, provides special academic support for a small group of its provisionally admitted students through its Program Quick Start, a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project involving the fields of literature and biology. Students meet for up to 5 or 6 hours daily for 5 weeks during the summer as…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Writing, Cooperation, High Risk Students
Bowles, Philip David – 1994
The dynamics of planning together, team teaching, troubleshooting problems, reflecting on and assessing a program's impact on students, and navigating the paths of institutional proposals and approvals together has become a process of professional growth for 2 professors who developed a summer program for provisionally admitted students. Point…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Writing, Cooperation, High Risk Students
May, Gordon S.; Arevalo, Claire – Journal of Accounting Education, 1983
The J. M. Tull School of Accounting at the University of Georgia has developed a program that integrates the teaching of writing skills with the regular accounting courses. Students in a three-course sequence write a total of eight papers--technical, memos, or reports--in assignments that resemble writing tasks encountered by professional…
Descriptors: Accounting, Content Area Writing, Education Work Relationship, Higher Education
Soven, Margot – 1984
The question of what to do "after the workshop" has been treated only in passing by writing across the curriculum experts. When planning the writing across the curriculum program at La Salle University (Philadelphia), the writing faculty decided to make continued "after the workshop" interaction with the writing specialist an integral part of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Dick, John A. R.; And Others – 1983
Intended for use in curriculum planning, course development, and program evaluation, this report contains data from a study of the writing abilities of entering freshman students at the University of Texas at El Paso. The first chapter of the report provides background information concerning the need for systematic assessment of the writing…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Area Writing, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Sipple, JoAnn M. – 1987
To evaluate the efficacy of faculty seminars for writing across the curriculum given for the instructors at Robert Morris College (Pennsylvania), an examination of the instructors' verbal protocols was conducted. Eleven faculty members from a variety of disciplines who participated in the 45 hour-long seminars and eight who did not participate…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
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Soven, Margot – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1986
Describes the experiences of teachers participating in writing-across-the-curriculum workshops and the successful implementation of interdisciplinary teaching methods at La Salle University. Concludes that the program has not only improved the use of writing in all disciplines but has contributed to global transformations in teaching practices.…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Objectives, English Teacher Education, Higher Education
Kelly, Leonard – 1985
Intended to complement two other summaries about writing across the curriculum at Gallaudet College for deaf students, this report describes the first academic year of the college's writing across the curriculum program (WAC), detailing various instructors' projects and their personal opinions about the program, as well as how the students felt…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking
Snow, Marguerite Ann; Brinton, Donna M. – 1988
The adjunct model of language instruction is described as it has been implemented at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In this model, freshman English and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) courses are linked with content area courses to better integrate the reading, writing, and study skills required for academic success at the…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing