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Direct linkChristy Goldsmith; Julie Birt – Across the Disciplines, 2025
Writing intensive (WI) courses are well-situated to support students' counterargument skill development, a key element for both academic and civic discourse in today's socio-political environment. However, while many researchers celebrate multi-faceted argumentation, few studies look beyond a dichotomous or "two-sided" approach in…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Assignments, College Faculty
Tyler Skorczewski; Justin Nicholes – Across the Disciplines, 2025
Writing-related activities have long been identified as supporting students' mathematics mastery and overall math success (Bahls, 2012). To further understand student experiences using writing in college math coursework, the present mixed-methods study explored the perceptions of a group of students (N = 55) in Multivariate Calculus who…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Calculus, College Mathematics, Writing Assignments
Fisher, Rick; DeDiego, Amanda C.; Cooper, Kathryn E.; Frye, Kathleen; Larson, Michele D.; Duball, Chelsea – Across the Disciplines, 2022
In this study at a research-intensive public university, a group of eight instructors across a range of disciplines designed a writing assignment in which students (n=104) chose to write to one of three audiences--the teacher, a novice, or an adjacent expert. Students were then asked to complete a questionnaire that included open-ended questions…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Assignments, Audiences, Teachers
Solaire A. Finkenstaedt-Quinn; Jennifer A. Schmidt-McCormack; Field M. Watts; Anne Ruggles Gere; Ginger V. Shultz – Across the Disciplines, 2023
Undergraduate writing fellows play an important role in administering writing assignments in writing-intensive courses. At the University of Michigan, the MWrite program was designed to support the implementation of writing-to-learn (WTL) assignments in STEM courses. Within MWrite, writing fellows are a primary instructional resource for students…
Descriptors: Fellowships, Undergraduate Study, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments
Miller, Elisabeth L.; Weisse, Kathleen Daly; Hughes, Bradley – Across the Disciplines, 2022
This research study of a WAC learning community focuses on instructors' behind-the-scenes decision making about assignment design. Specifically, we show how instructors use direct personal experience--as students, teachers and scholars--to approach writing assignment design, invoking these experiences to discuss the origin of their assignments and…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Decision Making, Instructional Design
Klucevsek, Kristin M. – Across the Disciplines, 2022
Students in the sciences learn to engage with primary research articles as a fundamental part of their discipline, essential to both writing and research. These sources are difficult to navigate, leading students to use (and misuse) these sources in a variety of complex ways. As instructors and researchers, we are aware of these challenges, but…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Student Attitudes, Writing Assignments, Science Education
