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Download full textThompson, Nancy S.; Alford, Elisabeth M. – 1997
A discipline-specific writing center is the nucleus of a writing-in-the-disciplines (WID) program in engineering, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of South Carolina. As a writing program, the writing center serves student writers and faculty in ECE and integrates writing consultation into the…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Program Development
Peer reviewedGraham, Steve; Harris, Karen R. – Exceptional Children, 1988
Research-based recommendations for an effective writing instruction program for exceptional students include, among others, allocate a sufficient amount of instruction time; expose students to a broad range of writing tasks; integrate writing with other academic subjects; develop the processes of planning, sentence generation, and revising; and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Program Development
Blanchard, Lydia – 1987
An alternative curriculum for Freshman Composition, designed to help students develop cognitive skills useful for academic writing in other courses, involves eight discipline-specific assignments, building from relatively simple writing tasks such as taking lecture notes and keeping an academic journal, through book reports, essay examinations,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Content Area Writing, Essays, Freshman Composition
