Writing, teaching, and learning in the disciplines/

Other Authors: Herrington, Anne,, Moran, Charles,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1992
Series:Research and scholarship in composition@1
Subjects:
Item Description:Contents: Language across the curriculum : where it began and what it promises / Nancy Martin -- American origins of the writing-across-the-curriculum movement / David R. Russell -- Theories of the disciplines and a learning theory / James Britton -- From cultural criticism to disciplinary participation : living with powerful words / Charles Bazerman -- Speaking of knowing : conceptions of understanding in academic disciplines / Judith A. Langer -- Context-specific ways of knowing and the evaluation of writing / Lee Odell -- Interchange : a conversation among the disciplines / Michael M. Abbott ... [et al.] -- From practice to theory : writing across the disciplines at Spelman College / Jacqueline Jones Royster.
Contents: Contributions of academic and dialogic journals to writing about literature / Susan Peck MacDonald and Charles R. Cooper -- Writing and learning American literature / Toby Fulwiler -- How students handle writing assignments : a study of eighteen responses in six disciplines / Joy Marsella, Thomas L. Hilgers, and Clemence McLaren -- Encountering the biological sciences : ideology, language, and learning / Bonnie B. Spanier -- Advocacy and neutrality : a contradiction in the discourse of urban planners / Louise Dunlap -- Writing in the disciplines : a prospect / Anne Herrington and Charles Moran.
Physical Description:xi, 265 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:0873525787