The question of what to do "after the workshop" has been treated only in passing by writing across the curriculum experts. When planning the writing across the curriculum program at La Salle University (Philadelphia), the writing faculty decided to make continued "after the workshop" interaction with the writing specialist an integral part of the…

Addressing the concern that writing assignments are used only for recording or relating information, a program called "Writing in Content Areas" has been developed in Minnesota to help students and teachers use writing as a tool for learning. Students are encouraged to use expressive writing for working out ideas, relationships, understandings,…

Addresses many questions teachers might have about incorporating writing in science curricula. (JK)

Presents ways of finding news sources for newspaper and yearbook reporters. Suggests how to work the "Beat System." (JK)

Argues that composition instruction based on aims, rather than modes, is better suited to the needs of students, is more realistic, fosters real growth and progress, and encourages transfer of writing skills to writing situations outside the classroom. (EL)

Provides a teacher study questionnaire and tables for two follow-up studies (observational and field) investigating questions of improved achievement through unit construction and increase in the likelihood of teachers employing reading and writing instruction. Concludes efficacy of units on teaching techniques. (JK)

Argues that students should be encouraged to want to know more than is necessary merely to accumulate credit hours, pass tests, and hold jobs. Discusses how St. Petersburg Junior College has reworked its curriculum to emphasize the humanities. (SRT)

Discusses the functions of English and native languages in northern Ontario native communities and argues that native children's greatest need for English is in an anglophone classroom environment. Discusses three types of curriculum design and suggests ways to develop content area reading and writing curricula for Canada native children. (SED)

Provides suggestions for teaching multisyllable words to remedial readers, incorporating romantic fiction into a reading program, and using content writing activities in a biology class. (HOD)

Explains a five-step study strategy (PORPE) that can be used in any content area: Predicting potential essay questions to guide subsequent study; Organizing key ideas using own words; Rehearsing the key ideas; Practicing the recall of the key ideas in self-assigned writing tasks; and Evaluating the completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of…

Maintains that to teach students to write like historians, teachers must begin by asking how historians write, and then teach students to duplicate that method. (EL)

Describes Sacramento City College's Higher Education Learning Package (HELP), which integrates reading, writing, study skills, and content instruction within the regular classroom to improve basic skills and personal development of nontraditional, high-risk students. Considers the HELP program's team-teaching approach, three-phase implementation…

Presents comments and responses on three "College English" articles: Robert Connor's "Journals in Composition Studies," Dennis Rygiel's "On the Neglect of Twentieth-Century Nonfiction," and C. H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon's "Writing as Learning through the Curriculum." (RBW)

In spite of the widespread implementation of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), there remains little concrete evidence of the writing-thinking connection. This paper proposes a new research method that tracks students' performance and production at a deeper level of specificity than that in previous investigations of this relationship, e.g., in…

Cites survey and interview results indicating that college students do a large amount of self-sponsored writing, including letter and journal writing, to come to terms with others' ideas and their own feelings. Suggests that teachers need to make their students' own intentions the focus and starting point for for classroom writing. (MM)