Writing-intensive : becoming W-faculty in a new writing curriculum / Wendy Strachan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strachan, Wendy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In one of the few book-length studies of a major post-secondary writing-across-the-curriculum initiative from concept to implementation, Writing-Intensive traces the process of preparation for new writing requirements across the undergraduate curriculum at Simon Fraser University, a mid-sized Canadian research university. As faculty members across campus were selected to pilot writing-intensive courses, and as administrators and committees adjusted the process toward full implementation, planners grounded their pedagogy in genre theory-a new approach for many non-composition facult

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Prologue; Introduction; 1 Forty Years On: An Old Mission in a New Context; 2 Criteria for Writing-Intensive Courses: Rules or Reasons?; 3 In Defense of Stumbling: The Map is Not the Territory; 4 What Happened in This Course? Reflections from Three Perspectives; 5 Taking a Genre Approach to Teaching Writing: The Consulting, Collaborative Process; 6 Voices of Experience: Reflections from the W-Faculty; 7 The Institutional Context: How is it Helping or Hindering the Writing Curriculum Initiative? A Faculty Forum; 8 Through Transition in Search of Stability

EpilogueAppendix 1: A Proposal for the Development of Undergraduate Writing-Intensive Courses at Simon Fraser University; Appendix 2 Pre-Course Questionnaire; Appendix 3 In-class Memo Assignment and Peer Review Guide; Appendix 4 Econ 355 Assignment Questions Summary; Appendix 5 Survey Data from Third Year W-Course; Appendix 6 Categories for Analyzing Students' Written Responses; Appendix 7 Questions for structured interviews; Appendix 8 Arts Faculty Survey; Appendix 9 Post-course Questionnaire; Appendix 10 CWIL Mandate; Appendix 11 Constitution for the Proposed Schedule A centre

Appendix 12 Stages of Writing Program DevelopmentReferences; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-287) and index.

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ISBN:

9780874217049

0874217040

OCLC:

476175564