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Direct linkMorgan Gresham; Megan Mize; Sarah Zurhellen – Across the Disciplines, 2023
In this article, we explore how members of the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning's (AAEEBL) Digital Ethics Task Force used their third space discursive expertise to conceptualize Principles for Digital Ethics in ePortfolios and argue that the diversity of their roles is directly responsible for the successful…
Descriptors: Ethics, Electronic Publishing, Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing Instruction
Joseph Anthony Wilson – Across the Disciplines, 2024
This article addresses key issues in WAC/WID regarding translation and biliteracy. Informed by translingual scholarship, genre studies, and history of the English language research, it first defines translation politically and historically, and as always involving negotiations of meaning-making across linguistic repertoires and genres. It then…
Descriptors: Literacy, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Writing Instruction
Hendricks, C. C. – Across the Disciplines, 2018
In moves to fortify the discipline and articulate its value, does writing studies risk perpetuating narrow views of disciplinarity and academic writing? Drawing from an analysis of the intersections between WAC/WID [Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines] and transfer scholarship in popular rhetoric and composition journals, I…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Interdisciplinary Approach
Tricia Serviss; Julia Voss – College Composition and Communication, 2019
Theorizing WPA expertise as problem-oriented, stakeholder-inclusive practice, we apply the twenty-first-century paradigm of transdisciplinarity to a campus WID Initiative to read and argue that data-driven research capturing transdisciplinary WPA methods in action will allow us to better understand, represent, and leverage…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Program Development
Bintz, William P.; Monobe, Gumiko – Middle School Journal, 2018
This article describes results from a research project in which graduate education students from multiple content areas used an instructional strategy, centered on poetry, to integrate reading and writing across the curriculum. It discusses the importance of integrated curriculum and highlights the metaphorical tug-of-war between interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Graduate Students, Poetry, Writing Across the Curriculum
Murray, Neil – ELT Journal, 2016
English-medium universities have generally adopted centralized models of in-sessional English language provision, where expertise resides and is often delivered within language development units or as part of larger cognate departments, typically TESOL or Applied Linguistics departments. This arrangement might be seen as reflecting a…
Descriptors: College English, Academic Discourse, Educational Practices, Administrative Organization
Bohr, Dennis J.; Rhoades, Georgia – Across the Disciplines, 2014
The Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Appalachian State University, founded in 2008, supports faculty instruction in a vertical writing curriculum which requires two courses in Composition and two in the disciplines, ensuring that students take a dedicated writing course in each year of undergraduate education. To address the challenges of…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Glossaries, Writing Instruction
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
Faye Halpern – College Composition and Communication, 2015
We in composition studies have countered the suspicion that what we do is "simplistic in method and impoverished in content" by insisting on our own disciplinary expertise, an insistence that has gained us administrative support and, arguably, better working conditions. Yet this article explores a problem that arose for the author as a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Intellectual Disciplines, Expertise, Interprofessional Relationship
Buzzi, Olivier; Grimes, Susan; Rolls, Alistair – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
This article explores the issue of students' writing skills in the discipline of Engineering and beyond. It is the result of a discussion between three academics from different discipline backgrounds: Teaching and Learning, the Humanities and Engineering. We start with a review of the strategies commonly used to address problems in students'…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Independent Study, Student Attitudes, Writing Skills
Allan, Elizabeth G. – Across the Disciplines, 2013
Recent initiatives in WAC/WID and CxC/CAC programs have emphasized the need to support multimodal composing in writing studies and in other academic disciplines. This ethnographic case study examines the academic multimodal composing practices of undergraduate students in the visually-based discipline of architecture. The results of this study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Architectural Education, Studio Art, Rhetoric
Hall, Jonathan; Navarro, Nela – Across the Disciplines, 2011
This article is a collaboration between WAC/WID and second language acquisition (SLA) specialists. It examines alternate disciplinary notions of the place of writing among other skills and adapts concepts from SLA theory and pedagogy with the goal of providing new interdisciplinary options for WAC/WID research and classroom practice.
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Second Language Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
Zawacki, Terry Myers; Reid, E. Shelley; Zhou, Ying; Baker, Sarah E. – Across the Disciplines, 2009
The WAC director, composition director, director of Institutional Assessment (OIA), and WAC/OIA liaison describe the programmatic "needs" and "wants" they balanced in the plan they collaboratively designed to respond to a state mandate for "value-added" writing assessment. To satisfy this mandate, as they explain,…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Value Added Models, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests
Sterling-Deer, Carolyn – Across the Disciplines, 2009
This essay examines the impact of WAC/WID methodology and technology in an Education Capstone Course for Childhood Education majors at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY. Written discourse and ePortfolio development of students enrolled in the writing-intensive capstone course is examined within the framework of Veronica Boix Mansilla's (2004) work…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum, Technology Uses in Education
Robinson, Tracy Ann; Burton, Vicki Tolar – Across the Disciplines, 2009
This article advocates an approach to WAC/WID assessment that prioritizes student learning and encourages students in upper-division writing intensive (WI) courses to take greater responsibility for their course writing experience. At start of term, students complete a self-assessment and goal-setting survey called the Writer's Personal Profile…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Profiles, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction
