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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
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Remley, Dirk – Across the Disciplines, 2009
Carter (2007) identifies four meta-genres associated with writing activities that can help students learn discipline-specific writing skills relative to standards within a given field: these include problem solving, empirical approaches to analysis, selection of sources to use within research, and production of materials that meet accepted…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Technical Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing
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Platt, M. L. – Primus, 1993
Short essay questions are introduced into the calculus course as a technique to involve students with their own learning. Provides (1) instructions to the student for writing the report; (2) results of using the technique; and (3) reasons for using writing in mathematics classes. (MDH)
Descriptors: Calculus, Content Area Writing, Essays, Higher Education
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Brown, Nancy M. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1993
Describes a class activity in which students create word problems associated to specific arithmetic problems that are then edited in their English class. Using the computer laboratory and a word-processing program under the supervision of the media specialist, the problems are compiled in a booklet, printed, and distributed. (MDH)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Grade 7
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Fernanadez, Maria L.; And Others – Mathematics Teacher, 1994
Discusses research involving instruction to help students develop their mental managerial processes or metacognition, the role of a framework for problem-solving activities, the teacher as model or moderator, problem solving involving groups or pairs, and weaving writing into problem solving. (Contains 18 references.) (MKR)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Cooperative Learning, Developmental Stages, Heuristics
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Merrill, Yvonne – Across the Disciplines, 2004
Both curricular reformers and writing specialists believe a connection exists between critical thinking and writing, however two obstacles have prevented any conclusion from emerging. One is that there is no established shared understanding of what "critical thinking" means. The other is that no one knows how to measure it, even though…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, General Education, Critical Thinking, Pilot Projects
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Curcio, Frances R.; McNeece, J. Lewis – Mathematics Teacher, 1993
Describes one unit on analyzing and writing mystery stories in a problem-solving seminar for seventh graders that incorporates the use of television, cooperative learning, and reading and writing in the mathematics class. Provides a sample activity sheet and examples of seventh-grade mystery stories. (Contains 14 references.) (MDH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Technology, Educational Television, Instructional Materials
Gladstone, Carol – 1987
Instruction in reading, writing, and thinking has an important place in all classrooms. A study examined the effect of writing instruction on students' mathematics achievement, as measured by grade point average in math class and scores on the New York State Regency Competency Test in Mathematics. Subjects, 56 ninth-grade students involved in a…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking, Grade 9
Geeslin, William, Ed.; Graham, Karen, Ed. – 1992
The Proceedings of PME-XVI has been published in three volumes because of the large number of papers presented at the conference. Volume 1 contains: (1) brief reports from each of the 11 standing Working Groups on their respective roles in organizing PME-XVI; (2) brief reports from 6 Discussion Groups; and (3) 35 research reports covering authors…
Descriptors: Action Research, Affective Behavior, Algebra, Arithmetic