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Karen Lange – PRIMUS, 2024
This article describes a major capstone course centered on public writing, whose underlying pedagogical principles are transferable to courses across the curriculum. The course aims to strengthen students' mathematical agency and their ability to effectively communicate mathematical ideas. In its unique format, students repeatedly take turns…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Active Learning, Education Work Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Chaptin, Lisbeth – Composition Forum, 2018
This profile describes the first three years of initiating new writing-intensive seminars for the General Education curriculum at a small, career-focused, Catholic University. The primary reason for implementing the program was to initiate new writing-intensive seminars to replace existing writing-intensive General Education introductory courses…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Workshops, Seminars, General Education
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Chemishanova, Polina; Miecznikowski, Cynthia – Across the Disciplines, 2014
This article offers a critical examination of one regional institution's endeavor to imagine, develop, and implement a sustainable campus-wide writing-intensive program. Grounded in local and institutional contexts, our narrative elucidates how WPAs at rural and regional institutions can reconcile the processes of negotiation and concession to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Jensen, Amber – Across the Disciplines, 2012
A pilot program in a public high school positions experienced student writing center tutors to become WAC liaisons who foster writing across the curriculum by raising questions, identifying needs, and providing support to their teachers with the goal of strengthening writing instruction school-wide. This article discusses the background and…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Writing Across the Curriculum, Student Writing Models, Pilot Projects
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Goddard, Perilou – Teaching of Psychology, 2003
In this article, I describe Writing in Psychology, a semester-length 3-credit elective course designed to improve students' writing skills, familiarize them with psychology's writing conventions, and teach them American Psychological Association (APA) style. Students produced a case report, a report of an empirical study, a conference abstract,…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Psychology, Undergraduate Study, Elective Courses