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Treasure Island Inn Daytona Beach, Florida
Description
Writing-across-the-curriculum (w-a-c) programs have become firmly entrenched in a large number of universities throughout the USA. Many universities, however, still have not adopted the program itself nor the major tenets of this program. Since w-a-c addresses learning and teaching strategies that are applicable "across the curriculum," its adoption, if only by individual teachers in various disciplines, can result in students writing better and learning more about these subject areas, while they are writing. By requiring that students write more while exploring and acquiring the meaning-making strategies of their disciplines, students become more proficient writers while learning more about their respective disciplines. In order to do justice to this innovative approach, teachers must develop evaluative criteria that reflect w-a-c principles.
Utilizing Writing-Across-The-Curriculum Principles in the Traditional Classroom: Rethinking Teaching Strategies and Evaluative Criteria
Treasure Island Inn Daytona Beach, Florida
Writing-across-the-curriculum (w-a-c) programs have become firmly entrenched in a large number of universities throughout the USA. Many universities, however, still have not adopted the program itself nor the major tenets of this program. Since w-a-c addresses learning and teaching strategies that are applicable "across the curriculum," its adoption, if only by individual teachers in various disciplines, can result in students writing better and learning more about these subject areas, while they are writing. By requiring that students write more while exploring and acquiring the meaning-making strategies of their disciplines, students become more proficient writers while learning more about their respective disciplines. In order to do justice to this innovative approach, teachers must develop evaluative criteria that reflect w-a-c principles.