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Peer reviewedMcCleary, William J. – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Describes an approach to composition instruction in which the students are given a body of real or fictional evidence about a particular case and asked to interpret or explain it by means of a closely-reasoned argument. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedCunningham, Frank J. – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Describes a philosophy course with an expanded writing component. Includes samples of writing assignments. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Content, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedFaigley, Lester; Hansen, Kristine – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Explores the difficulties writing teachers and students encounter with content area writing assignments, using observations and interviews from two social science classes. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Social Sciences, Student Problems
Peer reviewedMadigan, Chris – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Presents a comprehensive theory-based model that encompasses all writing assignments across all disciplines; adapts Jakobson's communication model to written communication. (HTH)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Content Area Writing, Educational Theories, Higher Education
Peer reviewedScharton, Maurice – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Outlines a basic writing skills course organized around the process of transcribing reading and lecture notes from students' other classes. (HTH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Content Area Writing, Course Content, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKiniry, Malcolm; Strenski, Ellen – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Describes a system for arranging assignments in a composition course that aims to prepare students for academic writing, by focusing entirely on exposition and its conceptual demands. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Content, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum
Peer reviewedPowell, Alfred – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Invites colleagues in the "hard" sciences to embrace writing, reading, and thinking across the curriculum, and describes the use of "project" and "concept" composition assignments to that end in an organic chemistry course. (HTH)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking
