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Direct linkAnderson, Paul; Anson, Chris M.; Gonyea, Robert M.; Paine, Charles – Across the Disciplines, 2016
This article reports on a study that suggests ways that Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines (WAC/WID) programs can increase the effectiveness of their efforts, including implementation of writingintensive courses, which are one of the Association of American Colleges and Universities' High-Impact Educational Practices. The…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction
Anson, Chris M.; Dannels, Deanna – Across the Disciplines, 2009
Implementation of communication-across-the-curriculum initiatives has outpaced their systematic assessment, leaving many stakeholders wondering whether faculty and students are benefiting from the emphasis on writing, speaking, and other communicative media in discipline-based courses and curricula. Increasing interest in assessment, however, has…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Communication Skills, Program Implementation, Interdisciplinary Approach
Download full textAnson, Chris M.; Beach, Richard – 1990
A study was conducted to characterize those features which could be recognized across students' academic journals. Subjects, 110 students in an introductory linguistics course, kept a journal during the course. The study was mainly interested in the relationships among categorical ratings of linguistic features in students' journals, and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Correlation, Higher Education, Journal Writing
Anson, Chris M. – Assessing Writing, 2006
Writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs had their genesis in grass-roots efforts to promote attention to writing in all disciplinary areas. At first based on generic faculty-development activities with little regard to systemic and institutional concerns, WAC programs are now more often engaged in assessment and research of writing,…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Program Effectiveness, Program Development, Program Implementation
Peer reviewedAnson, Chris M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Tape-recorded commentaries on student writing can tell students in detail how a reader responds to their writing. Computers that can record and/or play back voice recordings can also help improve the way teachers annotate students' drafts. Strategies for using the method are presented, with excerpts from students' discipline-based writing and…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
