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Author Waldo, Mark L.

Title Demythologizing language difference in the academy : establishing discipline-based writing programs / Mark Waldo.

Publication Info. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  808.042 W165D    Check Shelf
Description xi, 210 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.
Contents 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 cirriculum: 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 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 center -- 6. Workshops for designing assignments and grading writing across the curriculum: a difference-based approach -- 7. Assessing student writing within the disciplines -- Specialization, stewardship, and WAC: an essential partnership -- Appendixes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Interdisciplinary approach in education.
Learning and scholarship -- Terminology.
Language and education.
ISBN 0805847359 alkaline paper
9780805847352 alkaline paper
0805847367 paperback alkaline paper
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