03837nam 2200637 a 450 991078036980332120230617030459.01-4106-0972-3(CKB)111087027891130(EBL)335496(OCoLC)476147735(SSID)ssj0000136764(PQKBManifestationID)11152571(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136764(PQKBWorkID)10084262(PQKB)10798715(MiAaPQ)EBC335496(Au-PeEL)EBL335496(CaPaEBR)ebr10227404(CaONFJC)MIL610045(EXLCZ)9911108702789113020030506d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDemythologizing language difference in the academy[electronic resource] establishing discipline-based writing programs /Mark WaldoMahwah, N.J. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates20041 online resource (223 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8058-4736-7 0-8058-4735-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201) and index.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 Center6 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 IndexIn 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 insteEnglish languageRhetoricStudy and teachingAcademic writingStudy and teaching (Higher)Interdisciplinary approach in educationLearning and scholarshipTerminologyLanguage and educationEnglish languageRhetoricStudy and teaching.Academic writingStudy and teaching (Higher)Interdisciplinary approach in education.Learning and scholarshipLanguage and education.808/.042/0711Waldo Mark L1558062MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780369803321Demythologizing language difference in the academy3822157UNINA