1st Edition
Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy Establishing Discipline-Based Writing Programs
By Mark Waldo
Copyright 2004
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this volume, Mark Waldo argues that writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs should be housed in writing centers and explains an innovative approach to enhancing their effectiveness: focus WAC on the writing agendas of the disciplines. He asserts that WAC operation should reflect an academy characterized by multiple language communities--each with contextualized values, purposes, and forms... Read more
Contents: Preface. Introduction: How Universities Are Towers of Babel and How They Are Not. First-Year English, Graduate Programs in Composition Studies, and Writing Across the Curriculum: In the Tower Wobbling. Saving Wordsworth's Poet. Wordsworth's Poet Conducts WAC Workshops, or the Influence of Writing to Learn on the Cross-Curricular Writing Enterprise. WAC Administration Reduced to English-Only, Writing-Intensive, or Discipline-Based Models. Still the Last Best Place for Writing Across the Curriculum: The Writing Center. Workshops for Designing Assignments and Grading Writing Across the Curriculum: A Difference-Based Approach. Assessing Student Writing Within the Disciplines. Specialization, Stewardship, and WAC: An Essential Partnership. Appendices.
Biography
Mark Waldo
