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Direct linkMcClellan, Michael; Myelle-Watson, Dawn; Peters, Brad; Spears, Debora; Wellen, David – Across the Disciplines, 2012
To teach science writing effectively, scholars encourage combining writing to learn with applications of the science writing heuristic. How teachers learn to do so remains under-examined. This essay follows a cohort of ninth-grade science teachers who collaborated in a project to develop, test, and revise such a combination of writing prompts for…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Science Education, Grade 9, Science Teachers
Download full textStrawn, 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
Davis, Barbara; Luvaas-Briggs, Linda – 1983
In response to the academic needs revealed by students' reading scores and faculty perceptions of students' skill deficiencies, Sacramento City College (SCC) developed two programs of integrated skills and content instruction. Using a team-teaching format, the HELP (Higher Education Learning Package) and Adjunct programs seek improvement of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, High Risk Students
Wishner, Nan – 1991
Solano Community College (SCC) undertook its first effort to link college composition to content area classes in 1989-90, without team teaching. All students in a particular composition class were also enrolled in a designated biology or history section. This "scotch-taping" of classes resulted in several drawbacks. Instructors spent…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Writing, Cooperative Planning, English Instruction
Hughes-Wiener, Gail; Martin, Gerald R. – 1989
In 1989, a study was conducted within the Minnesota Community College System to determine the effects of a 3-year Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) staff development program on the quality of student writing and on student mastery of course objectives. The study methods included faculty interviews, student and faculty surveys, holistic ratings…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Writing, Essay Tests, Faculty Development
