Demythologizing language differences in the academy : establishing discipline-based writing programs / Mark L. Waldo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldo, Mark L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Academic writing.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Learning and scholarship--Terminology.

Learning and scholarship.

Language and education.

Physical Description:

xi, 210 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Contents:

Introduction: How Universities Are Towers of Babel and How They Are Not 1

1 First-Year English, Graduate Programs in Composition Studies, and Writing Across the Curriculum: In the Tower Wobbling 13

2 Saving Wordsworth's Poet 31

3 Wordsworth's Poet Conducts WAC Workshops, or the Influence of Writing to Learn on the Cross-Curricular Writing Enterprise 44

4 WAC Administration Reduced to English-Only, Writing-Intensive, or Discipline-Based Models 58

5 Still the Last Best Place for Writing Across the Curriculum: The Writing Center 74

6 Workshops for Designing Assignments and Grading Writing Across the Curriculum: A Difference-Based Approach 95

7 Assessing Student Writing Within the Disciplines 125

8 Specialization, Stewardship, and WAC: An Essential Partnership 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and indexes.

ISBN:

0805847359

0805847367

OCLC:

52269979