Assignments across the curriculum : a national study of college writing

Assignments across the curriculum : a national study of college writing / Dan Melzer.

"In Assignments across the Curriculum, Dan Melzer analyzes the rhetorical features and genres of writing assignments through the writing-to-learn and writing-in-the-disciplines perspectives. Presenting the results of his study of 2,101 writing assignments from undergraduate courses in the natur...

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Main Author: Melzer, Dan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
Report writing > Study and teaching.
Center for Writing.
Table of Contents:
  • A panoramic view of college writing
  • Limited purposes, narrow audiences: the rhetorical situations of college writing
  • Social action, social inaction: the genres of college writing
  • Each course is a community: the discourse communities of college writing
  • The power of writing across the curriculum: writing assignments in WAC courses
  • Implications for teachers, tutors, and WAC practitioners.

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