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Direct linkGerrard, Hannah – Across the Disciplines, 2019
This article offers an overview of a first-year writing course in Aotearoa New Zealand, Tu Kupu: Writing and Inquiry, which forms part of a core Bachelor of Arts (BA) curriculum with "citizenship" as a key theme. I situate the course in the context of the tertiary sector in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the social and political contexts for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Inquiry
Driscoll, Dana Lynn; Jin, Daewoo – Across the Disciplines, 2018
This article draws upon Bergmann and Zepernick's (2007) metaphor of the box under the bed to investigate the relationship between students' epistemologies and their learning transfer in diverse contexts over undergraduate years. We present a systemic analysis of 13 students' interviews and writing samples over a five-year period, through which we…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Epistemology
Cox, Michelle; Galin, Jeffrey R. – Across the Disciplines, 2019
"Sustainable WAC: A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs" (Cox, Galin, & Melzer, 2018a) lays out a systematic whole systems approach to program development that draws on complexity theories and integrates the use of sustainability indicators (SIs) for monitoring and assessing…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Sustainability, Holistic Approach, Program Development
Hoang, Thi Van Yen; Ma, Lai Ping Florence – Across the Disciplines, 2019
Writing for publication in English-medium refereed academic journals can be a challenging task for doctoral students who use English as an Additional Language (EAL). Limited research, however, has been conducted in the Australian context to explore this practice among EAL doctoral students. Adopting a qualitative research approach with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Writing for Publication, English (Second Language)
Fowler, Michael – Across the Disciplines, 2015
Taking advantage of a university-wide initiative that requires all students during their course of study to take at least one of their writing intensive classes in their major, the author relates how he was spurred to formulate one of his graphic design studio classes to accommodate the writing-intensive requirement. He had been intuitively…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Studio Art, Design Crafts, Integrated Activities
Carillo, Ellen C. – Across the Disciplines, 2016
This essay argues that what might otherwise be considered "plagiarism" in student writing is a symptom of the difficulties students encounter in their reading and writing, moments in which students' inabilities to critically assess, read, and respond to sources through the act of writing come to the surface. Expanding the context within…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Reading Writing Relationship
Brooks-Gillies, Marilee; Garcia, Elena G.; Kim, Soo Hyon; Manthey, Katie; Smith, Trixie – Across the Disciplines, 2015
While the editors of "Across the Disciplines" were working at the Michigan State University (MSU) Writing Center in 2011, they began focusing on the issues of graduate writing support through their involvement with the graduate writing groups hosted through the MSU Writing Center, conducting research on the benefits of such groups. When…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction, Laboratories
Bahls, Patrick; Mecklenburg-Faenger, Amy; Scott-Copses, Meg; Warnick, Chris – Across the Disciplines, 2011
This article offers an initial analysis of the rhetorical devices used by mathematics undergraduates as they begin to write research articles in their discipline. The authors (a mathematician and three experts in composition and rhetoric) identify several such devices, including transitions and metacommentary, style and tone, use of sources, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Undergraduate Students, Writing for Publication, Content Area Writing
Allan, Elizabeth G. – Across the Disciplines, 2013
Recent initiatives in WAC/WID and CxC/CAC programs have emphasized the need to support multimodal composing in writing studies and in other academic disciplines. This ethnographic case study examines the academic multimodal composing practices of undergraduate students in the visually-based discipline of architecture. The results of this study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Architectural Education, Studio Art, Rhetoric
McClellan, Michael; Myelle-Watson, Dawn; Peters, Brad; Spears, Debora; Wellen, David – Across the Disciplines, 2012
To teach science writing effectively, scholars encourage combining writing to learn with applications of the science writing heuristic. How teachers learn to do so remains under-examined. This essay follows a cohort of ninth-grade science teachers who collaborated in a project to develop, test, and revise such a combination of writing prompts for…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Science Education, Grade 9, Science Teachers
Freedman, Leora – Across the Disciplines, 2013
A reading-writing initiative began in 2011-12 at the University of Toronto as a partnership between an East Asian Studies (EAS) department and an English Language Learning (ELL) Program. In this institution, students are expected to enter into scholarly discussions in their first year essays, yet many (both native English speakers and non-native…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Foreign Countries, Asian Studies, English (Second Language)
Brammer, Charlotte; Amare, Nicole; Campbell, Kim Sydow – Across the Disciplines, 2008
To help writing faculty learn the language of discourse communities across campus, we conducted faculty interviews as a first attempt to describe knowledge about disciplinary cultures, specifically with regard to writing. Based on the data received from the interviews about disciplinary definitions and characteristics of good writing and how…
Descriptors: Interviews, Culture Conflict, Intellectual Disciplines, Stereotypes
