Higher education institutions in the United States are experiencing tremendous growth of international students. This essay serves as a case study of how an institution is addressing its growth from a handful of international students to nearly 10% of its total student population in a decade. The authors describe writing instruction and the lack…

This paper presentation explores the lived experiences of two teacher educators conducting a ten-day writing workshop and how they implement narrative and writing pedagogy and dialogic interactions as pedagogical tools to foster self-reflection and critical reflection for teacher candidates, in-service teachers and ourselves, as teacher educators.…

In 2004, the University of Kansas (KU) launched an interdisciplinary Graduate Writing Program as part of a larger initiative to reduce time to degree rates and increase degree completion rates. Serving both domestic and international students, this program employs a rhetorical genre-based approach in a series of courses organized around the genres…

Provides a course overview and a critical statement of a course for seniors (a capstone experience) at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington described as "a workshop leading to production of a senior manuscript in prose or poetry and public reading of selected work." (PA)

The purpose of this longitudinal study was to assess whether faculty writing workshops could facilitate writing in heterogeneous disciplines by linking specific, workaday writing activities (Tschudi, 1986) with Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives (1974). Multi-disciplinary faculty participating in writing-across-the-curriculum workshops…