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Direct linkTricia 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
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
Parker, Anne – Technical Writing Teacher, 1990
Describes the problem-solving approach implemented in the University of Manitoba's first-year technical communication course. Considers technical writing as a process which can be broken down into steps: classify, analyze, test, and solve. Explains that this process offers students the methodology and flexibility they need to solve either…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Engineering Education, Evaluative Thinking, Higher Education
Rosenbaum, Nina J. – 1981
The writing done in a biology class has a great deal in common with the writing done in the humanities and the social sciences. Because the scientific method of investigation requires the student to examine and understand the physical world by asking questions and then answering them through empirical investigation, clear and concise writing is…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Writing, Educational Cooperation, Interdisciplinary Approach
Download full textMacDonald, Susan Peck – 1985
Academic writing is distinguished by its being a problem solving activity, no matter how tentative the solutions. In this regard, writing about literature is a form of academic writing that shares the same assumptions as other academic writing. The problem solving activity of the literary interpreter consists of discovering, preserving, or…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Interpretive Skills
Christensen, Linda, Ed.; And Others – 1983
Designed to help teachers find an effective approach in teaching expository writing, this guide divides expository writing into five main types: definition/classification, comparison/contrast, thesis/proof, problem/solution, and inference (drawing conclusions). Five different starter techniques are presented with each of the five main types of…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing
Moss, Barbara, Ed.; Lapp, Diane, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2009
Even the youngest readers and writers in today's classrooms can benefit enormously from engagement with a wide range of traditional and nontraditional texts. This teacher-friendly handbook is packed with creative strategies for introducing K-3 students to fiction, poetry, and plays; informational texts; graphic novels; digital storytelling;…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, High Stakes Tests, Visual Aids, Biographies
Flower, Linda – 1987
Second in the series "Reading-to-Write: Exploring a Cognitive and Social Process," this report looks at the different ways students represent reading-to-write tasks to themselves, analyzes the resulting divergence in their writing goals and strategies, and recommends teaching task representation as an interpretive process that continues…
Descriptors: College English, Content Area Writing, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Coward, Pat; Taylor, Jo – 1983
Critical thinking skills were taught to students in a lower-track freshman English class through the use of cross-disciplinary subject matter. Given a set of three transmission electron micrographs, or photographs of magnified tissue used in histology and pathology, students were asked to support their conclusions on which two of micrographs A, B,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking, Evaluation Methods
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
Williamson, Ronald; Osborne, Debra C. – 1988
At a time when many public school teachers and administrators are limiting instructional goals to the lower level objectives found on standardized tests, there is a need for classroom activities derived from higher purposes. Conceptual analysis, which relates abstract concepts to the lives of students, meets this need. While focusing primarily on…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
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
