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Lucy Bryan Malenke; Laura K. Miller; Paul E. Mabrey III; Jared Featherstone – Writing Center Journal, 2023
Writing center scholars have long debated whether writers are best served by "generalist" tutors trained in writing center pedagogy or "specialist" tutors with insider knowledge about a course's content or discipline-specific discourse conventions. A potential compromise that has emerged is training tutors in the purposes and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Writing Instruction, Tutors
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Qianqian Zhang-Wu; Alison Stephens; Neal Lerner – Composition Studies, 2023
Our research explores the meaningful writing experiences of 325 undergraduate students who self-identify as multilingual. Through qualitative coding of open-ended survey data, we found that respondents considered their writing meaningful when it allowed them to make personal and relevant connections and learn new skills and strategies. Our…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Multilingualism, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments
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Callow, Megan; Dykema, Julie – Across the Disciplines, 2022
Within cross-curricular literacy (CCL) initiatives at colleges and universities, there still remain challenges in preparing and supporting instructors from different disciplinary backgrounds. This small, exploratory study investigates the ways that literacy experiences and disciplinary backgrounds shape the teaching practice of five science…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teacher Background, Science Instruction, Intellectual Disciplines
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Melzer, Dan – Composition Forum, 2022
In this article, I present the results of a national study of response to student writing and argue for an approach to response I call "Responding for Transfer" (RFT). My corpus includes peer and teacher responses to 1,054 rough and final drafts of student writing from across the curriculum as well as 128 student self-reflection essays…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Across the Curriculum, Essays, College Students
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Kramer, Tereza Joy; Zeccardi, Joe; Concepcion, Rebecca; Emhoff, Chi-An; Miller, Steve; Posell, Krista Varela – Across the Disciplines, 2019
This study reports on a quantitative assessment of enhancements to a Writing in the Disciplines course in Kinesiology. The assessment coded student writing produced in semesters before and after a Kinesiology course was enhanced with both iterated peer review groups and writing-process scaffolding. These enhancements were developed through a…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, STEM Education, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction
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Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Parr, Judy; Lindgren, Eva; Kaufman, Douglas – Curriculum Journal, 2018
In this article, researchers in the field of early writing identify underlying beliefs and values about writing and learning to write for the beginning years of formal schooling in four jurisdictions: the American state of Connecticut, New Zealand, the Canadian province of Ontario, and Sweden, as reflected in the respective curricula and standards…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, Beginning Writing
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Dobson, Tom; Stephenson, Lisa – Literacy, 2019
Set against the backdrop of children being 'alienated' from their writing, this paper is taken from a United Kingdom Literacy Association sponsored project where primary school teachers were trained to use process drama in order to give children more agency in their writing across the curriculum. Here, we use discourse analysis to think about the…
Descriptors: Drama, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Literacy
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Johnson, Kristine – Composition Studies, 2017
Writing has become more visible in academia through writing advice manuals and the faculty development activities they inspire. In this article, I examine writing advice manuals and argue they are epistemologically current traditional, which limits how well and how far they can support scholarly writers. Writing advice manuals and composition…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Materials, Writing (Composition), Scholarship
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Rice-Bailey, Tammy; Baker, Kimberly S. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2017
This article describes an interdisciplinary partnership that resulted in the introduction of a writing coach into an MBA class on critical and analytical thinking. By examining the response to this role by the writing coaches themselves and by the students enrolled in three sections of this new course, this exploratory study endeavors to answer…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Partnerships in Education
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Shapiro, Elliot – Across the Disciplines, 2015
This article argues that teaching writing can help graduate students become better writers. Each year, more than 100 graduate students from more than thirty departments participate in one of two training courses offered through Cornell's John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. This article describes some of how these courses…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Graduate Students
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Rademaekers, Justin K. – Across the Disciplines, 2015
Over the past two decades, academic and research institutions increasingly moved toward a transdisciplinary model of knowledge production where collaborations occur among disciplines with seemingly divergent methods and ideologies. More complicated than less-integrated modes of collaboration, transdisciplinary research has been described as an…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Research Universities, Research, Writing Processes
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Driscoll, Dana Lynn; Powell, Roger – Composition Forum, 2016
Drawing from a five-year longitudinal data set following thirteen college writers through undergraduate writing and beyond, we explore the impact of students' emotions and emotional dispositions on their ability to transfer writing knowledge and on their overall writing development. Participants experienced a range of emotions concerning their…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Longitudinal Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Anderson, Paul; Anson, Chris M.; Gonyea, Robert M.; Paine, Charles – Across the Disciplines, 2016
This article reports on a study that suggests ways that Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines (WAC/WID) programs can increase the effectiveness of their efforts, including implementation of writingintensive courses, which are one of the Association of American Colleges and Universities' High-Impact Educational Practices. The…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction
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Berge, Kjell Lars; Evensen, Lars Sigfred; Thygesen, Ragnar – Curriculum Journal, 2016
The model presented in this article aspires to represent a theoretically valid and coherent definition and description of writing, as a basis for teaching and assessing writing as a key competency in school. It represents a critique as well as an extension of previous alternatives in that it views writing as a culturally and individually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Brooks-Gillies, Marilee; Garcia, Elena G.; Kim, Soo Hyon; Manthey, Katie; Smith, Trixie – Across the Disciplines, 2015
While the editors of "Across the Disciplines" were working at the Michigan State University (MSU) Writing Center in 2011, they began focusing on the issues of graduate writing support through their involvement with the graduate writing groups hosted through the MSU Writing Center, conducting research on the benefits of such groups. When…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Laboratories
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