Creating and Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Writing Program
Author: Matthew William Segaard
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 550
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Author: Matthew William Segaard
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Paul Witte
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780809311248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNoting that present evaluation systems are so limited that they are neither reliable nor valid, this monograph critically reviews studies designed to evaluate composition programs at four major universities. The book offers theoretical and practical guidance through discussion of generalities from the four studies and pertinent questions and guidance to evaluators of composition programs. The first chapter looks at the state of the art of evaluating writing programs, discussing the need for such evaluation, and at two dominant approaches to writing program evaluation. The second chapter discusses a quantitative model of writing program evaluation in terms of four university studies, giving an overview of the dominant quantitative approach. Chapter 3 discusses a framework for evaluating college writing programs, including five components of writing program evaluation, and the final chapter discusses accommodating context and change in writing program evaluation. (HTH)
Author: Alice Johnston Myatt
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1137599324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates how to develop and engage in successful academic collaborations that are both practical and sustainable across campuses and within local communities. Authored by experienced writing program administrators, this edited collection includes a wide range of information addressing collaborative partnerships and projects, theoretical explorations of collaborative praxis, and strategies for sustaining collaborative initiatives. Contributors offer case studies of writing program collaborations and honestly address both the challenges of academic collaboration and the hallmarks of successful partnerships.
Author: Thomas L. Hilgers
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1992-09-28
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will assist all those who create, evaluate and oversee programme writing. Rather than being a set of prescriptive rules, it is a prompt which can help readers better understand the contexts in which they work. The text includes examples from many types of programmes at every level and will be particularly useful for those in programmes run by a single person.
Author: Andrew Ian Moss
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert W. Barnett
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1999-02-28
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting Centers have traditionally been viewed as marginalized facilities within their institutions. At the same time, faculty in all disciplines have come to stress the importance of good writing, and institutions have created Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Programs to address this concern. Often, the interests of Writing Centers conflict with those of WAC programs, and the theoretical foundations of the two may not necessarily be the same. Nonetheless, Writing Centers—whether voluntarily or involuntarily—have become more involved with efforts to promote Writing Across the Curriculum and have formed fruitful partnerships with WAC Programs. While journal articles have begun to discuss these partnerships, this book offers an extended treatment of the topic. By examining the relationships between Writing Centers and WAC programs, this volume challenges the view that Writing Centers are marginalized and demonstrates how they are aggressively moving toward the curricular center of education. Each chapter examines the evolving theoretical, practical, and institutional relationships between Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum programs. By drawing from institutionally specific experiences, expert contributors present a variety of approaches for establishing and developing effective Writing Center/WAC partnerships. Included are perspectives from established and emerging theorists from all levels, including high schools, community colleges, small four-year colleges and universities, and major research institutions. The contributors accurately portray the true diversity of Writing Center/WAC partnerships and assess the compatibility of these partnerships with larger institutional missions. The volume touches on such topics as the use of computers in writing instruction, the use of student writing tutors, and the problems inherent in discipline-specific language. By deepening our knowledge of the merging of Writing Centers and WAC Programs, this book sets the foundation for more advanced future research.
Author: Susan H. McLeod
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1992-08-27
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can institutions develop and sustain writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs? This volume, written for faculty and administrators alike, answers that question. Chapters written by some of the foremost WAC directors and consultants in the country discuss how to get started, how to run WAC workshops, what role administrators can play, and how WAC can be integrated into the university curriculum. Also, there are pertinent chapters on developing permanent institutional support for WAC. Writing Across the Curriculum gives details about resources successful WAC programs need - administrators, coordinators, faculty who participate in workshops and seminars, support systems such as peer tutoring or writing centers, and institution-specific curricular models. The book assumes that WAC directors are learners as well as facilitators of learning, and asserts that they expand the definition of "good" writing through discussion with members of other disciplines.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2005-04-04
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0309165482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFacilitating Interdisciplinary Research examines current interdisciplinary research efforts and recommends ways to stimulate and support such research. Advances in science and engineering increasingly require the collaboration of scholars from various fields. This shift is driven by the need to address complex problems that cut across traditional disciplines, and the capacity of new technologies to both transform existing disciplines and generate new ones. At the same time, however, interdisciplinary research can be impeded by policies on hiring, promotion, tenure, proposal review, and resource allocation that favor traditional disciplines. This report identifies steps that researchers, teachers, students, institutions, funding organizations, and disciplinary societies can take to more effectively conduct, facilitate, and evaluate interdisciplinary research programs and projects. Throughout the report key concepts are illustrated with case studies and results of the committee's surveys of individual researchers and university provosts.
Author: Stephen Tchudi
Publisher: National Education Association
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollege instructors concerned about student writing quality are provided with information on writing in the content areas and writing across the curriculum. Following an overview of writing in the content area, the chapters focus on writing and learning--"workaday" writing (personalizing knowledge through writing, forms of workaday writing, other workaday forms, and workaday writing and inquiry learning); writing projects in the disciplines (assignment making and the writing process from assignment to writing); evaluating writing (evaluation in process, grading content writing, the issue of correctness, and a note on evaluation through writing); examples of content writing projects (the QUEST program, teaching science writing, thinking before writing in public relations, social action portfolio, landscape history, simulations and case studies, science dialogues, consumer reports, and interdisciplinary humanities); Writing across the Curriculum programs (Michigan Technological University, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, State University College of New York at Fredonia, The University of Michigan, and Montana State University); and faculty workshops (writing and teaching). Contains 106 reference. (SM)
Author: Pamela B. Childers
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this text, contributors describe and critique various ways that writing across the curriculum (WAC) has been incorporated into schoolwide, districtwide and statewide programmes in the USA. As well as philosophical foundations for WAC, it contains specific classroom applications.