Writing programs worldwide : profiles of academic writing in many places / edited by Chris Thaiss, [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thaiss, Christopher, 1948-

WAC Clearinghouse.

Open Textbook Library, distributor.

Series:

Perspectives on writing (Fort Collins, Colo.)

Open Textbook Library.

Perspectives on writing.

Open textbook library.

International exchanges on the study of writing series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic writing--Cross-cultural studies.

Academic writing.

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 530 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library.

Place of Publication:

Anderson, S.C. : Parlor Press, 2012.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"Emerging from the International WAC/WID Mapping Project, this collection of essays is meant to inform decision-making by teachers, program managers, and college/university administrators considering how writing can most appropriately be defined, managed, funded, and taught in the places where they work. Writing Programs Worldwide offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs. The authors of its program profiles show how innovators at a diverse range of universities on six continents have dealt creatively over many years with day-to-day and long-range issues affecting how students across disciplines and languages grow as communicators and learners. In these profiles, we see teachers and researchers relying on colleagues and on transnational scholarship to build initiatives that are both well suited to their specific environments and can serve as regional and often global models. Their struggles and achievements offer insights to colleagues in similar locales and across borders who seek to establish, enhance, and assess their own work as designers of writing programs. An introduction and three section essays by the editors illuminate themes that inform this collection. Growing networks of initiators and scholars and survey results from the International WAC/WID Mapping Project exemplify the argument of this collection for transnational exchange and collaboration."--Open Textbook Library.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes 42 chapters.

This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Writing programs worldwide.

ISBN:

160235345X

1602353468

9781602353459

9781602353466

OCLC:

803310723

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access