1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455882503321

Autore

Waldo Mark L

Titolo

Demythologizing language difference in the academy [[electronic resource] ] : establishing discipline-based writing programs / / Mark Waldo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

ISBN

1-4106-0972-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042/0711

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Academic writing - Study and teaching (Higher)

Interdisciplinary approach in education

Learning and scholarship

Language and education

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

6 Workshops for Designing Assignments and Grading Writing Across the Curriculum: A Difference-Based Approach7 Assessing Student Writing Within the Disciplines; 8 Specialization, Stewardship, and WAC: An Essential Partnership; Appendix A; Appendix B: Why Is It Important to Advance Critical Thinking Skills?; Appendix C: Toward Identifying Critical Thinking; Appendix D; Appendix E: Sample Assignments; Appendix F: Samples of Student Physics Papers; Appendix G: Writing Center Phone Survey; Appendix H: Visitor Response Sheet UNR Writing



Center; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 for writing, and no single community's values superior to another's. Starting off with an examination of the core issue, that WAC should be promoting learning to write in the disciplines inste

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Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0244524

Titolo

Ammonothermal Synthesis and Crystal Growth of Nitrides : Chemistry and Technology / editors Elke Meissner, Rainer Niewa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer, 2021

Descrizione fisica

XX, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

546

541

620.11

620.1

541.377

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia