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Student Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines

Author : Patrick Bahls
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118205820
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Student Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines written by Patrick Bahls and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing interesting problems and writing assignments is one of the chief tasks of all teachers, but it can be especially challenging to translate and apply learning theory, good teaching techniques, and writing assignments into STEM and other quantitative disciplines. Student Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines offers instructors in math-based disciplines meaningful approaches to making their coursework richer and more relevant for their students, as well as satisfying institutional imperatives for writing curricula. This important resource provides instructors with the hands-on skills needed to guide their students in writing well in quantitative courses at all levels of the college curriculum and to promote students' general cognitive and intellectual growth. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes: Ideas for using writing as a means of learning mathematical concepts Illustrative examples of effective writing activities and assignments in a number of different genres Assessment criteria and effective strategies for responding to students' writing Examples of ways to help students engage in peer review, revision, and resubmission of their written work "Those of us who spend our lives urging faculty in all disciplines to integrate more writing into their courses have wished for the day when someone like Patrick Bahls would step forward with a book like this one." Chris M. Anson, University Distinguished Professor and director, Campus Writing and Speaking Program, North Carolina State University "Written by a mathematician, this readable, theoretically sound book describes practical strategies for teachers in the quantitative sciences to assign and respond to students' writing. It also describes numerous approaches to writing that engage students in disciplinary learning, collaborative discovery, and effective communication." Art Young, Campbell Professor of English emeritus, Clemson University "Loaded with practical advice, this timely, important, and engaging book will be an invaluable resource for instructors wishing to bring the benefits of writing-to-learn to the quantitative disciplines. As a mathematician thoroughly grounded in writing-across-the-curriculum scholarship, Bahls brings humor, classroom experience, and pedagogical savvy to a mission he clearly loves improving the quality of student learning in math and science." John C. Bean, professor, Seattle University, and author, Engaging Ideas

Student Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines

Author : Patrick Bahls
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470952121
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Student Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines written by Patrick Bahls and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing interesting problems and writing assignments is one of the chief tasks of all teachers, but it can be especially challenging to translate and apply learning theory, good teaching techniques, and writing assignments into STEM and other quantitative disciplines. Student Writing in the Quantitative Disciplines offers instructors in math-based disciplines meaningful approaches to making their coursework richer and more relevant for their students, as well as satisfying institutional imperatives for writing curricula. This important resource provides instructors with the hands-on skills needed to guide their students in writing well in quantitative courses at all levels of the college curriculum and to promote students' general cognitive and intellectual growth. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes: Ideas for using writing as a means of learning mathematical concepts Illustrative examples of effective writing activities and assignments in a number of different genres Assessment criteria and effective strategies for responding to students' writing Examples of ways to help students engage in peer review, revision, and resubmission of their written work "Those of us who spend our lives urging faculty in all disciplines to integrate more writing into their courses have wished for the day when someone like Patrick Bahls would step forward with a book like this one."—Chris M. Anson, University Distinguished Professor and director, Campus Writing and Speaking Program, North Carolina State University "Written by a mathematician, this readable, theoretically sound book describes practical strategies for teachers in the quantitative sciences to assign and respond to students' writing. It also describes numerous approaches to writing that engage students in disciplinary learning, collaborative discovery, and effective communication."—Art Young, Campbell Professor of English emeritus, Clemson University "Loaded with practical advice, this timely, important, and engaging book will be an invaluable resource for instructors wishing to bring the benefits of writing-to-learn to the quantitative disciplines. As a mathematician thoroughly grounded in writing-across-the-curriculum scholarship, Bahls brings humor, classroom experience, and pedagogical savvy to a mission he clearly loves—improving the quality of student learning in math and science."—John C. Bean, professor, Seattle University, and author, Engaging Ideas

Genres Across the Disciplines

Author : Hilary Nesi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521767466
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Genres Across the Disciplines written by Hilary Nesi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genres across the Disciplines presents cutting edge, corpus-based research into student writing in higher education. Genres across the Disciplines is essential reading for those involved in syllabus and materials design for the development of writing in higher education, as well as for those investigating EAP. The book explores creativity and the use of metaphor as students work towards becoming experts in the genres of their discipline. Grounded in the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus, the text is rich with authentic examples of assignment tasks, macrostructures, concordances and keywords. Also available separately as a paperback.

Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College

Author : Barbara E. Walvoord
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118559185
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College written by Barbara E. Walvoord and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step guidance for shaping better writers while keeping faculty workloads manageable Effective communication is a critical skill for many academic disciplines and careers, and so colleges and universities and their faculty members are rightfully committed to improving student writing across the curriculum. Guiding and assessing student writing in classrooms, general education, and departments takes knowledge, planning, and persistence, but it can be done effectively and efficiently. Written in the concise, accessible style Barbara Walvoord is known for, Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College: A Guide for Institutions, General Education, Departments, and Classrooms offers administrators, program chairs, general education leaders, and classroom instructors the guidance they need. The book provides concrete suggestions for how to: Articulate goals for student writing Measure student writing Improve student writing Document that improvement The book begins by addressing four basic concepts: what we mean by writing, what we mean by "good" writing, how students learn to write, and the purposes of assessment. Next, Walvoord explains the various approaches and methods for assessing writing, urging a combination of them adapted to the institution's purposes and political context. After this introduction, successive chapters offer realistic, practical advice to institution-wide and general education leaders, department members, and classroom instructors. Walvoord addresses issues such as how to engage faculty, how to use rubrics, how to aggregate assessment information at the department and institutional levels, and how to report assessment information to accreditors. The chapter for classroom instructors offers practical suggestions: how to add more writing to a course without substantially increasing the grading load; how to construct writing assignments, how to make grading and responding more effective and time-efficient, how to address grammar and punctuation, and how to support students whose native language is not English. The book also includes four helpful appendices: a taxonomy of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs; sample outlines for faculty development workshops; a student survey on teaching methods instructors can use to inform their choices in the classroom; and a student self-check cover sheet designed to help students take ownership of their own learning and responsibility for turning in complete, correct assignments. Practical, step-by-step guidance for each point in the assessment and improvement process creates a cohesive, institution-wide system that keeps students, faculty, and administrators on the same page.

Writing in the Disciplines

Author : Mary Lynch Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780130210272
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Writing in the Disciplines written by Mary Lynch Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader provides a firm grounding in academic writing, showing students how to read academic texts and use them as sources for college papers. Offering a broad and comprehensive selection of readings to help students develop their abilities to think critically and reason cogently, it shows them how to work individually and collaboratively as they move through the entire process of writing from sources from reading the original source to planning, drafting and revising essays.

Improving Student Writing

Author : Andrew Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Improving Student Writing written by Andrew Moss and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing in the Disciplines

Author : Christine Hardy
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178052546X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Writing in the Disciplines written by Christine Hardy and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops academic writing in higher education. Viewing writing as a complex sociocultural act, it analyses key issues in writing environments and their impact on student writing. Drawing on research, practice and the existing body of knowledge, it also offers practical writing activities that can be used with students in the disciplines.

Working with Academic Literacies

Author : Theresa Lillis
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602357641
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Working with Academic Literacies written by Theresa Lillis and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an “academic literacies” approach in policy and pedagogy. Transformative practice is illustrated through case studies and critical commentaries from teacher-researchers working in a range of higher education contexts—from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, across disciplines, and spanning geopolitical regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cataluña, Finland, France, Ireland, Portugal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Direct from the Disciplines

Author : Mary T. Segall
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Direct from the Disciplines written by Mary T. Segall and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Direct from the Disciplines, representatives from a broad range of disciplines at Quinnipiac University recount how they worked together to bring about a writing-across-the-curriculum program that really works.

Making the Implicit Explicit

Author : Barbara E. Lovitts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100097734X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Making the Implicit Explicit written by Barbara E. Lovitts and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their and other stakeholders’ consistent demand for excellence, doctoral programs have rarely, if ever, been assessed in terms of the quality of the dissertations departments produce. Yet dissertations provide the most powerful, objective measure of the success of a department’s doctoral program. Indeed, assessment, when done properly, can help departments achieve excellence by providing insight into a program’s strengths and weaknesses.This book and the groundbreaking study on which it is based is about making explicit to doctoral students the tacit “rules” for the assessment of the final of all final educational products—the dissertation. The purpose of defining performance expectations is to make them more transparent to graduate students while they are in the researching and writing phases, and thus to help them achieve to higher levels of accomplishment. Lovitts proposes the use of rubrics to clarify performance expectations–not to rate dissertations or individual components of dissertations to provide a summary score, but to facilitate formative assessment to support, not substitute for, the advising process. She provides the results of a study in which over 270 faculty from ten major disciplines—spanning the sciences, social sciences, and humanities—were asked to make explicit their implicit standards or criteria for evaluating dissertations. The book concludes with a summary of the practical and research implications for different stakeholders: faculty, departments, universities, disciplinary associations, accrediting organizations, and doctoral students themselves.The methods described can easily be adapted for the formative assessment of capstone courses, senior and master’s theses, comprehensive exams, papers, and journal articles.

Engaging Ideas

Author : John C. Bean
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118062337
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Engaging Ideas written by John C. Bean and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.

Developing Writers in Higher Education

Author : Anne Ruggles Gere
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901036
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Developing Writers in Higher Education written by Anne Ruggles Gere and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergraduates following any course of study, it is essential to develop the ability to write effectively. Yet the processes by which students become more capable and ready to meet the challenges of writing for employers, the wider public, and their own purposes remain largely invisible. Developing Writers in Higher Education shows how learning to write for various purposes in multiple disciplines leads college students to new levels of competence. This volume draws on an in-depth study of the writing and experiences of 169 University of Michigan undergraduates, using statistical analysis of 322 surveys, qualitative analysis of 131 interviews, use of corpus linguistics on 94 electronic portfolios and 2,406 pieces of student writing, and case studies of individual students to trace the multiple paths taken by student writers. Topics include student writers’ interaction with feedback; perceptions of genre; the role of disciplinary writing; generality and certainty in student writing; students’ concepts of voice and style; students’ understanding of multimodal and digital writing; high school’s influence on college writers; and writing development after college. The digital edition offers samples of student writing, electronic portfolios produced by student writers, transcripts of interviews with students, and explanations of some of the analysis conducted by the contributors. This is an important book for researchers and graduate students in multiple fields. Those in writing studies get an overview of other longitudinal studies as well as key questions currently circulating. For linguists, it demonstrates how corpus linguistics can inform writing studies. Scholars in higher education will gain a new perspective on college student development. The book also adds to current understandings of sociocultural theories of literacy and offers prospective teachers insights into how students learn to write. Finally, for high school teachers, this volume will answer questions about college writing.

Assignments across the Curriculum

Author : Dan Melzer
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 087421940X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Assignments across the Curriculum written by Dan Melzer and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Writing Across the Disciplines

Author : Art Young
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Writing Across the Disciplines written by Art Young and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young and Fulwiler bring together eighteen essays from writing-across-the-curriculum participants and program staff.

Advances in Writing Research, Volume 2

Author : David Jolliffe
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Writing Research, Volume 2 written by David Jolliffe and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quantitative Literacy

Author : Bernard L. Madison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Quantitative Literacy written by Bernard L. Madison and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Student Research and Report Writing

Author : Gabe T. Wang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118963903
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Student Research and Report Writing written by Gabe T. Wang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable, concise, all-in-one guide for carrying out student research and writing a paper, adaptable to course use and suitable for use by students independently, it successfully guides students along every step of the way. Allows students to better manage their research projects Exercises and worksheets break down the research process into small steps and walk students through each stage of the research project Offers real-world and lively examples that are attractive and relevant to students Based on twenty years of experience in teaching research techniques to students in a way that avoids the methodology “overkill” from encyclopaedic and intimidating textbooks Accompanying website includes powerpoint lecture slides for instructors and helpful links to video resources for student. Visit www.wiley.com\go\wang\researchreportwriting