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Oddis, Kyle; Burstein, Jill; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Holtzman, Steven L. – Grantee Submission, 2022
Background: Researchers interested in quantitative measures of student "success" in writing cannot control completely for contextual factors which are local and site-based (i.e., in context of a specific instructor's writing classroom at a specific institution). (In)ability to control for curriculum in studies of student writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Achievement, Curriculum Evaluation, College Instruction
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Loewe, Drew M. – Composition Studies, 2018
Writing and Rhetoric 3326: Legal Writing is an introduction to legal analysis and writing. It is offered at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, a Holy Cross liberal arts university of approximately 4,300 students, mostly undergraduates. This course focuses on applied rhetoric, and is designed to give undergraduate students experience in…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Writing Strategies
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Nicolas, Maureen O’Day; Annous, Samer – Business Communication Quarterly, 2013
This study investigates syllabi for evidence of the principles of writing across the curriculum (WAC) in courses offered by the Faculty of Business (FOB) at a university operating in a non–English-speaking country. The research analyzed all syllabi of FOB courses offered in the spring 2010 semester for evidence of WAC looking for indications of…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Business Education, Course Descriptions, Educational Principles
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Hoover, Terry E.; Lyon, Lucinda J. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
This essay examines the collateral benefits to faculty from a guided learning literature review project for students. We describe a 3-year continuum of project creation and refinement designed to foster critical thinking and writing for second year dental students at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. We discuss…
Descriptors: Productivity, Dental Schools, Writing Exercises, Critical Thinking