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Writing Centers and Writing across the Curriculum Programs: Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships » Read Now
by Robert W. Barnett, Jacob S. Blumner. 224 pgs.

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Writing Centers have traditionally been viewed as marginalized facilities within their institutions. This book challenges that view by examining the evolving theoretical, practical, and institutional relationships between Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Programs at the...
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Writing Centers have traditionally been viewed as marginalized facilities within their institutions. This book challenges that view by examining the evolving theoretical, practical, and institutional relationships between Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels. Based on their experiences at particular institutions, expert contributors present a variety of approaches for establishing and developing effective partnerships between Writing Centers and WAC Programs. These partnerships have been given relatively little consideration in the larger field of composition and rhetoric. By deepening our knowledge of the merging of these two specialized areas of scholarship, the volume sets the foundation for more advanced research. The contributors present different perspectives that accurately portray the true diversity of Writing Center/WAC partnerships and their compatibility with larger institutional missions.
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Preparing to Teach Writing: Research, Theory, and Practice ("The WAC Model" begins on p. 73) » Read Now
by James D. Williams. 346 pgs.

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...the shift across the threshold...replaced by writing. In the late...assume that writing was an important part of the curriculum throughout...Self-expressive writing is also...
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Writing across the Curriculum: Lessons from a Writing Teacher, in College Teaching » Read Now
by Mary Mortimore Dossin. 2 pgs.

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...Writing across the Curriculum Lessons from a Writing Teacher Mary Mortimore DossinThe development of Writing- across-the-Curriculum (WAC) programs in colleges and...
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Teaching Field-Specific Writing: Results of a WAC Survey, in Business Communication Quarterly » Read Now
by Molly Hill Epstein. 12 pgs.

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Whacking WAC, in Business Communication Quarterly » Read Now
by Mary Munter. 4 pgs.

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Mathematics and Writing: Linking Problem Solving and Composing Strategies, in Journal of College Reading and Learning » Read Now
by Beatrice Mendez, Sylvia R. Taube. 11 pgs.

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Writing across the Curriculum in a College of Business and Economics, in Business Communication Quarterly » Read Now
by Susan Plutsky, Barbara A. Wilson. 16 pgs.

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Writing across the Accounting Curriculum: An Experiment, in Business Communication Quarterly » Read Now
by Diane A. Riordan, Michael P. Riordan, M. Cathy Sullivan. 11 pgs.

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Writing across the Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography » Read Now
by Chris M. Anson, John E. Schwiebert, Michael M. Williamson. 189 pgs.

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This annotated bibliography is the first to trace the history of the Writing Across the Curriculum Movement (WAC) and to assess the state of scholarship and pedagogy on the subject today. Professors Anson, Schwiebert, and Williamson carefully describe 1067 important sources taken from...
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This annotated bibliography is the first to trace the history of the Writing Across the Curriculum Movement (WAC) and to assess the state of scholarship and pedagogy on the subject today. Professors Anson, Schwiebert, and Williamson carefully describe 1067 important sources taken from bibliographies, books, monographs, journals, textbooks, and other documents. Their research guide reviews the history and implementation of WAC, research and theoretical studies, and the teaching of writing across the curriculum in general and in diverse fields. Author and subject indexes provide easy access to the reference materials for the use of researchers in composition, education, arts and humanities, physical, social and behavioral sciences, and business.
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Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction (Chap. 5 "Writing and Learning at Cross Purposes in the Academy") » Read Now
by Joseph Petraglia. 272 pgs.

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...Landmark Essays in Writing Across the Curriculum Hermagoras . He is currently...and suggests reasons why writing across the curriculum and courses about writing...
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Why Johnny Can't Write: How to Improve Writing Skills (Chap. 6 "Writing, Talking, and Notetaking across the Curriculum") » Read Now
by Myra J. Linden, Art Whimbey. 144 pgs.

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Time to Know Them: A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level ("Variation over Time in Writing in Different Disciplines" begins on p. 181) » Read Now
by Marilyn S. Sternglass. 330 pgs.

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...others has been translated too literally into the American educational system in both "process writing" and Writing Across the Curriculum adaptations: "The British model...
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Literacy and Empowerment: The Meaning Makers (Chap. 6 "Literacy beyond the English Class") » Read Now
by Patrick L. Courts. 188 pgs.

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Courts argues that while by society's standards many people can read well, they are unable to create meaning from the world of oral and written language. His theory derives from psycho- and sociolinguistics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, literary criticism, and "whole language" theory. Courts...
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Courts argues that while by society's standards many people can read well, they are unable to create meaning from the world of oral and written language. His theory derives from psycho- and sociolinguistics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, literary criticism, and "whole language" theory. Courts criticizes programmed activities, texts, and workbooks--challenging the control that commercial textbook publishers and test-makers exert on education. He shuns overemphasis on methods, and offers an alternative approach firmly grounded in theory and aimed at empowering teachers and students.
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Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 1996 Rhetoric Society of America Conference ("The Prospect of Rhetoric in Writing across the Curriculum" begins on p. 149) » Read Now
by Theresa Enos, Richard McNabb, Roxanne Mountford, Carolyn Miller. 232 pgs.

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Post-process Theory: Beyond the Writing-Process Paradigm (Chap. 7 "Writing within (and between) Disciplinary Genres: The 'Adaptive Landscape' as a Case Study in Interdisciplinary Rhetoric") » Read Now
by Thomas Kent. 248 pgs.

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Breaking with the still-dominant process tradition in composition studies, post-process theory -- or at least the different incarnations of post-process theory discussed by the contributors represented in this collection of original essays -- endorses the fundamental idea that no codifiable or...
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Breaking with the still-dominant process tradition in composition studies, post-process theory -- or at least the different incarnations of post-process theory discussed by the contributors represented in this collection of original essays -- endorses the fundamental idea that no codifiable or generalizable writing process exists or could exist. Post-process theorists hold that the practice of writing cannot be captured by a generalized process or a "big" theory.
Most post-process theorist hold three assumption about the act of writing: writing is public; writing is interpretive; and writing is situated. The first assumption is the commonsensical claim that writing constitutes a public interchange. By "interpretive act, " post process theorists generally mean something as broad "making sense of" and not exclusively the ability to move from one code to another. To interpret means more than merely to paraphrase; it means to enter in a relationship of understanding with other language users. And finally, because writing is a public act that requires interpretive interaction with others, writers always write from some position or some place. Writer are never nowhere; they are "situated."
Leading theorists and widely published scholars the field, contributors are Nancy Blyler, John Clifford Barbara Couture, Nancy C. DeJoy, Sidney I. Dobrin, Elizabeth Ervin, Helen Ewald, David Foster, Debra Journet, Thomas Kent, Gary A. Olson, Joseph Petragl George Pullman, David Russell, and John Schilb.
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Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Change » Read Now
by Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, Edward M. White. 308 pgs.

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...The essays in this book, stemming from a national conference of the same name, focus on the single subject required of nearly all college students - composition. Despite...