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What is Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)

Chapter 2
Providing Writing Feedback in Online Teaching and Learning: The PAUSE Framework
A set of writing criteria and goals that can be used across multiple courses to improve writing skills.
Published in Chapter:
Writing as Pedagogy
Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7707-6.ch002
Abstract
Chapter 2 will present a brief background of writing as a purposeful (or overlooked) piece of higher education instruction. The unfolding of writing as both pedagogy and debate has been both a need and a reason for frustration for higher education faculty, especially when teaching online. By understanding how the pedagogy of writing has unfolded, faculty can understand what programs are being used in their own college or university and begin to understand how PAUSE can be included as a feedback pedagogy.
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Chapter 6
Technical and Professional Communication in the European Project Semester
An approach that promotes and caters for students' academic writing and in every course offered in a program of studies.
Published in Chapter: Technical and Professional Communication in the European Project Semester; From: Handbook of Research on Improving Engineering Education With the European Project Semester
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Chapter 1
The Significance of Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill
An instructional programmedeveloped to train the students to write in their disciplines, where teaching is collaboratively conducted by language teachers and subject specialists.
Published in Chapter: The Significance of Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill; From: Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill in Higher Education
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Educators Partnering for Successful Student Transitions: Collaborating to Enhance College Readiness
WAC refers to the notion that writing should be an integral part of the learning process throughout a student’s education, not merely in required writing courses but across the entire curriculum. Further, it is based on the premise that writing is highly situated and tied to a field’s discourse and ways of knowing, and therefore writing in the disciplines (WID) is most effectively guided by those with expertise in that discipline (INWAC, 2014, p. 1).
Published in Chapter: Educators Partnering for Successful Student Transitions: Collaborating to Enhance College Readiness; From: Cases on Establishing Effective Collaborations in Academic Libraries
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