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 natural sci...

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Main Author: Melzer, Dan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
Report writing > Study and teaching.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching
Report writing > Study and teaching
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. A Panoramic View of College Writing; 2. Limited Purposes, Narrow Audiences: The Rhetorical Situations of College Writing; 3. Social Action, Social Inaction: The Genres of College Writing; 4. Each Course Is a Community: The Discourse Communities of College Writing; 5. The Power of Writing across the Curriculum: Writing Assignments in WAC Courses; 6. Implications for Teachers, Tutors, and WAC Practitioners; Appendix A: Institutions Surveyed; Appendix B: Sample Coded Assignments; References; Index.

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