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Peer reviewedMcMullen, Judith Q.; Wellman, J. Douglas – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1990
Evaluates the effectiveness of a writing improvement program outside the English department. Finds that the program prepared students for writing on the job. Considers changes in the writing program to make it a true writing-across-the-curriculum program. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Improvement
Peer reviewedGreene, Brenda M.; And Others – Community Review, 1991
Offers a rationale for collegewide writing across the curriculum (WAC) approaches. Assesses the effectiveness of a WAC project at Medgar Evers College involving two courses (computer science and chemistry). Reports improvement in students' ability to summarize an article's content and writing fluency. Includes writing assignment instructions and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Chemistry, Community Colleges, Computer Science
Messina, Susan; White, Diane – 1992
In fall 1991, Solano Community College (California) undertook a study comparing the writing skills of students in an integrated course combining history and freshman English composition with students in unpaired history and English classes. Students were divided into three groups: the integrated class and two control groups, one taking history…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Freshman Composition, Integrated Activities
Download full textHolladay, John M. – 1990
During winter semester 1989, Monroe County Community College (MCCC) developed a Writing Fellows program and introduced a Writing Center into the Learning Assistance Lab (LAL). Both these iniatives were part of the school's writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) efforts which had been launched in fall 1987. Writing Fellows are specially-trained peer…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learning Laboratories, Newsletters, Peer Teaching
Peer reviewedSmithson, Isaiah; Sorrentino, Paul – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1987
Examines the long-term effects of the 1980 Virginia Tech Faculty Writing Workshop, a writing across the curriculum workshop that trained teachers from a variety of disciplines to use writing as a means of teaching their disciplines. Shows writing across the curriculum programs work, but that teaching through writing does require increased time and…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Workload, Higher Education
Holladay, John – 1989
An evaluation is provided of two aspects of Monroe County Community College's (MCCC's) writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) program: a Writing Center and peer tutoring by instructor-nominated Writing Fellows. Introductory remarks in Part 1 highlight the benefits of the college's programs for faculty, Writing Fellows, the college administration, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Peer Teaching, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Adkins, Donna – 1989
Writing to Read (WTR) is a computer-based instructional system designed to develop writing and reading skills of students in the primary grades. Evaluation of the WTR program in West Virginia was conducted with kindergarten students only. Thirty-one kindergartens in five counties were involved in the evaluation study as the treatment group,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education, Program Evaluation
Beadle, Mary E. – 1989
The problems and accomplishments of a program to evaluate the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program at Walsh College in Canton (Ohio) are described. The college-wide writing program began in 1987 with training workshops for faculty. Stage 1 of the program ended in 1988 with a summative evaluation and the development of a handbook to be used…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Evaluation Problems, Formative Evaluation
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
