1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786651403321

Autore

Melzer Dan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : Utah State University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-87421-940-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Classificazione

LAN005000

Disciplina

808/.042071173

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"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 sciences, social sciences, business, and humanities in 100 postsecondary institutions in the United States, Assignments across the Curriculum is unique in its cross-institutional breadth and its focus on writing assignments. The results provide a panoramic view of college writing in the United States. Melzer's framework begins with the rhetorical situations of the assignments--the purposes and audiences--and broadens to include the assignments' genres and discourse community contexts. Among his conclusions is that courses connected to a writing-across-the-



curriculum (WAC) initiative ask students to write more often, in a greater variety of genres, and for a greater variety of purposes and audiences than non-WAC courses do, making a compelling case for the influence of the WAC movement. Melzer's work also reveals patterns in the rhetorical situations, genres, and discourse communities of college writing in the United States. These larger patterns are of interest to WAC practitioners working with faculty across disciplines, to writing center coordinators and tutors working with students who bring assignments from a variety of fields, to composition program administrators, to first-year writing instructors interested in preparing students for college writing, and to high school teachers attempting to bridge the gap between high school and college writing"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778513103321

Autore

Abramson Bruce

Titolo

Article 2 [[electronic resource] ] : the right of non-discrimination / / by Bruce Abramson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008

ISBN

1-282-39661-7

9786612396618

90-474-3136-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

A commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Disciplina

342.085

Soggetti

Discrimination - Law and legislation

Children - Legal status, laws, etc

Children's rights

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. [149]-153).

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Comparing the CRC's right of non-discrimination with other prohibitions of discrimination -- Scope of article 2(1) : freedom from discrimination -- Scope of article 2(1) : the jurisdictional clause -- Scope of article 2(2) : no discrimination or punishment on account of parental actions -- The committee on the rights of the child.



Sommario/riassunto

This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is part of the series, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child , which provides an article by article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols. For every article, a comparison with related human rights provisions is made, followed by an in-depth exploration of the nature and scope of State obligations deriving from that article. The series constitutes an essential tool for actors in the field of children’s rights, including academics, students, judges, grassroots workers, governmental, non-governmental and international officers. The series is sponsored by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office .