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WID Course Enhancements in STEM: The Impact of Adding "Writing Circles" and Writing Process Pedagogy
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Direct linkKramer, 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
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
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
Yood, Jessica – Across the Disciplines, 2004
Jessica Yood argues that Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) initiatives can help us better understand how the academy can act in the information age. Drawing on her observations of a newly emerging WAC program, she offers "an alternative approach to the traditional lens we use to look at disciplines or culture" and suggests that we…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Knowledge Economy, Systems Approach, Writing (Composition)
Kam, Angeniet; Meinema, Yvette – Across the Disciplines, 2005
International students travel in many ways. First of all geographically: they move from one country to another. Secondly, they travel through their own identities: they have to find a new place in a new context by familiarizing themselves with new values and customs, while making sure they meet the requirements their studies ask of them. Writing…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Foreign Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Writing Instruction
Merrill, Yvonne – Across the Disciplines, 2004
Both curricular reformers and writing specialists believe a connection exists between critical thinking and writing, however two obstacles have prevented any conclusion from emerging. One is that there is no established shared understanding of what "critical thinking" means. The other is that no one knows how to measure it, even though…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, General Education, Critical Thinking, Pilot Projects
