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Refaei, Brenda; Kumar, Rita; Wahman, M. Lauren; Peplow, Amber Burkett – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
A cross-disciplinary team of composition, communication, and library faculty used lesson study to investigate interdisciplinary instructional strategies to improve students' use of quoting in their writing. The team developed a three-class lesson plan to introduce the concept of quoting, practice the concept, and allow students to reflect on their…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Writing Improvement
Brown, Leslie A. – Learning, 1993
Students who have trouble starting to write can create collage images from textured papers to inspire story ideas and written text. Some students may invent a plot first then illustrate it. Others may let textured paper influence their writing. The article describes the process and explains how to make textured paper. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Paper (Material)
Stanley, Linda – 1990
A writing across the curriculum program at Queensborough Community College in New York began its work on campus as Writing and Reading in the Technologies (WRIT) and chose to work with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) department. The program's implementation was two-tiered. In Tier 1, over a period of three years, the WRIT…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Interdisciplinary Approach, Technical Writing, Two Year Colleges
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Kleinsasser, Audrey M.; And Others – Journal of General Education, 1994
Describes a follow-up study of a University of Wyoming faculty development workshop on writing across the curriculum to assess its impact on teaching roles. Compares gatekeepers (e.g., teachers control classroom discourse and enforce the discipline's conventions) and border crossers (e.g., teachers invite students to direct discourse, and create…
Descriptors: College Faculty, General Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Grabill, Patricia J. – Middle School Journal, 1998
A teaching team from Fall Creek Valley Middle School in Indianapolis, Indiana sought to improve their students' writing skills by collecting writing samples in portfolios in each of their subject areas. This approach allowed the eighth-grade students to assess their progress as writers, see connections between the disciplines, and understand the…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Interdisciplinary Approach, Middle Schools, Portfolio Assessment
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Stanley, Linda C., Ed.; Ambron, Joanna, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1991
Designed to assist program planners and administrators at community colleges in initiating a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program or determining the future direction of one already in existence, this sourcebook provides 15 articles on various aspects of WAC theory and practice. The following articles are included: (1) "History of WAC and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach