Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy : Establishing Discipline-Based Writing Programs.

Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy : Establishing Discipline-Based Writing Programs.

Addresses how writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) programs can be effective in the context of differences among languages and specializations in disciplines they serve. It argues the importance of comprehensive writing centers to the WAC endeavor; explains tutor training and faculty consultancy; and...

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Main Author: Waldo, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
Subjects:
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
Academic writing > Study and teaching (Higher)
Interdisciplinary approach in education.
Learning and scholarship > Terminology.
Language and education.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching
Interdisciplinary approach in education
Language and education
Learning and scholarship
Terminology
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: How Universities Are Towers of Babel and How They Are Not; 1 First-Year English, Graduate Programs in Composition Studies, and Writing Across the Curriculum: In the Tower Wobbling; 2 Saving Wordsworth's Poet; 3 Wordsworth's Poet Conducts WAC Workshops, or the Influence of Writing to Learn on the Cross-Curricular Writing Enterprise; 4 WAC Administration Reduced to English-Only, Writing-Intensive, or Discipline-Based Models; 5 Still the Last Best Place for Writing Across the Curriculum: The Writing Center.

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