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Deans, Thomas – Across the Disciplines, 2017
This study reports on learning outcomes of one-credit writing-intensive (W) courses in the disciplines at a large public university where three-credit W courses are the norm. An evaluation of 210 final papers from four departments--Allied Health, Animal Science, Economics, and Nutritional Sciences--revealed that writing outcomes, as defined and…
Descriptors: College Credits, Writing Instruction, Content Area Writing, Intellectual Disciplines
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Thelin, William H.; Taczak, Kara – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2007
At the University of Akron, the administration decided to segregate the students previously called "provisional" from the "regular" population. As an open-access institution, the university directly admits only approximately 15 percent of the students to a program of study. The vast majority of students start in University College and transfer to…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, College Students, Thematic Approach, College Credits