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IDEAS: Integrated Disciplinary Education for Academic Scholarship: Integrating Writing
Books
Successful College Writing by Call Number: PE1408 .M397 2015 Hourly ReserveISBN: 9781457670770Publication Date: 2014-12-12Kathleen T. McWhorter's unique visual approach, with support for both reading and writing, helps students at any level of preparedness become successful college writers. The sixth edition of Successful College Writing builds on its beloved, proven visual tools, such as graphic organizers, flowcharts, and new graphic Guided Writing Assignments, with engaging professional, multimedia, and student readings in the most commonly assigned rhetorical modes. In response to instructor and student feedback, the new edition has been thoughtfully streamlined and redesigned.The new edition is enhanced by LaunchPad for Successful College Writing, an online course space of pre-built units featuring adaptive LearningCurve activities that help students hone their understanding of reading and writing. To package LaunchPad free with Successful College Writing, use ISBN 978-1-319-01199-3. See what's in the LaunchPad
College Writing Essentials by Call Number: PE1408 .S545 2008ISBN: 0205572537The first brief rhetorically-organized writing guide of its kind, College English Essentials presents comprehensive coverage of only the six most frequently taught modes.
Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781579222222Publication Date: 2008-09-15Motivating students requires explaining the underlying rationale, and then providing guidance on how to learn in this environment. This book is about how to help students acquire the new skills and knowledge they need to take on unfamiliar roles and responsibilities.
Articles on Integrative Writing
- Writing in the Disciplines, Technology, and Disciplinary GroundingAuthor: Carolyn Sterling-Deer
This essay examines the impact of WAC/WID methodology and technology in an Education Capstone Course for Childhood Education majors at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY. - Mapping Student Literacies: Reimagining College Writing Instruction within the Literacy LandscapeAuthor: Erin Penner Gallegos
Through an examination of four current trends in composition instruction, this article presents a new lens for envisioning composition instruction that integrates the best aspects of the writing across the curriculum, genre-based curriculum approach, ecocomposition, and writing across communities theories of writing instruction. - Reforming General Education: Three Reasons to Make Writing Across the Curriculum Part of the ConversationAuthor: Paul Hanstedt
An essay is presented on the reasons for including writing across the curriculum in conversations related to general education reform. - The Future Of Business: Merit In Writing Across The CurriculumAuthors: Heather Dana, Carol Hancock and JoDee Phillips
This study shows that students improve their writing and communication skills by practicing them in their entire Associate or entire Bachelor program, and these skills can transfer into their professional lives. - High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to WritingAuthor: Peter Elbow
This article deals with the simple, crude distinction between high- and low-stakes in assigning and responding to writing. The goal of low-stakes assignment is not to produce excellent pieces of writing but to get students to think, learn and understand the course material. - Democracy, Critical Pedagogy and Writing in the HumanitiesAuthor: John Kerr
This paper argues for a writing pedagogy that encourages students to become critically active thinkers as they use writing to explore, discover and investigate what constitutes knowledge in the academy and what relationship this knowledge has to power and the social relationships that structure their learning environment.
More Materials on Integrative Writing
- Writing to Learn Critical Thinking Activities for Any ClassroomWriting Across the Curriculum
Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing
The Ohio State University
Version 2012 - The WAC ClearinghouseThe WAC Clearinghouse, in partnership with the International Network of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs, publishes journals, books, and other resources for teachers who use writing in their courses.
- Writing in the DisciplinesThis guide presents a great deal of information on WID, including a detailed rationale, examples, and logistical tips.
- Peter Elbow Handouts on WritingThese are handouts from the workshop conducted by Peter Elbow in the Spring 2001 Semester. Please feel free to use them in preparing and grading writing assignments for your courses.
- National Writing ProjectNWP teacher-leaders study and share effective practices that enhance student writing and learning, work collaboratively with other educators, design resources, and take on new roles in effecting positive change.
- Writing Across the Curriculum: Teaching that Makes SenseComplete handbook by Steve Peha.
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