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Direct linkMelzer, Dan – College Composition and Communication, 2009
In this essay I present the results of a national study of over 2,000 writing assignments from college courses across disciplines. Drawing on James Britton's multidimensional discourse taxonomy and recent work in genre studies, I analyze the rhetorical features and genres of the assignments and consider the significance of my findings through the…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Across the Curriculum, Audiences, Writing Instruction
Peer reviewedZaluda, Scott – College Composition and Communication, 1998
Examines writing assignments, articles, textbooks, and other expressions of faculty thinking from courses about relationships among education, writing, and society in philosophy, English, history, and sociology at Howard University, a historically black university. Finds writing assignments at once conservative, subversive, and creative, in a…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Teachers
