Tuesday, November 15, 2011

SSTW Readings for Next Time

Selected Print Resources on Writing to Learn

Adams, P. (Ed.) (1973). Language in Thinking. Harmondsworth: Penguin Press.

Applebee, A.N. (1985). Writing and Reasoning. Review of Educational Research, 54(4), 577-596.

Britton, J., Burgess, T., Martin, N., McLeod, A., & Rosen, H. (1975). The Development of Writing Abilities (11-18). London: Macmillan Education.

Bruner, J. (1975). Language as an Instrument of Thought. In A. Davies (Ed.), Problems in language and learning. London: Heinemann.

Emig, J. ( 1977). Writing as a Mode of Learning. College Composition and Communication, 28, 122-28.

Forsman, S. (1985). Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think. In A. R. Gere (Ed.), Roots in the sawdust: Writing to learn across the disciplines (pp. 162-174). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Fulwiler, T. & Young, A. (1982). Introduction. In T. Fulwiler and A. Young (Eds.), Language connections: Writing and reading across the curriculum (pp. ix-xiii). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Herrington, A. (1981). Writing to Learn: Writing Across the Disciplines. College English, 43, 379-87.

Kiefer, K. (1990). An Alternative to Curricular Reform: Writing in the Natural Science/Engineering Curriculum. In Proceedings of the Core Across the Curriculum Conference (Keystone, Colorado, October 6-8, 1990). The American Association for the Advancement of Core Curriculum.

Knoblauch, C., & Brannon, L. (1983). Writing as Learning through the Curriculum. College English, 45, 465-74.

McLeod, S.H. (1989). Writing across the curriculum: The second stage, and beyond. College Composition and Communication 40,(3), 337-343.

Odell, L. (1980). The Process of Writing and the Process of Learning. College Composition and Communication, 36, 42-50.

Palmquist, M., Rodrigues, D., Kiefer, K., and Zimmerman, D. 1995. Enhancing the audience for writing across the curriculum: Housing WAC in a network-supported writing center. Computers and Composition 12, 335-353.

Parker, R. P. (1985). The Language across the Curriculum Movement: A Brief Overview and Bibliography. College Composition and Communication, 36, 173-177.

Parker, R. P., & Goodkin, V. (1987). The Consequences of Writing: Enhancing Learning in the Disciplines. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook.

Russell, D.R. (1990). Writing Across the Curriculum in Historical Perspective: Toward a Social Interpretation. College English, 52, 52-73.

Walvoord, B.E. 1992. Getting started. In Writing across the curriculum: A guide to developing programs, edited by S.H. McLeod and M. Soven. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Wilkes, J. (1978). Science Writing: Who? What? How? English Journal, 67, 56-60.

Young, A., and Fulwiler, T. 1986. Writing across the disciplines: Research into practice. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook.

Friday, October 28, 2011

WID @ RIC

From my meeting with Joe:


To Jim and to Ron…

The criteria for a WID course?

New course?
Existing course?

WID coordinators? What is there job like?

Peer Institutions:

Bridgewater

FCTL SSTW as certifying agency…

Thursday, October 13, 2011

rhetoric of change

Rhetoric of Change

How do people make arguments that affect change? Are there cases in which human beings have actually been able to persuade other human beings that we need to change? Arab spring. Cigarettes. CFC’s or holes in ozone layer. Other examples? What arguments are effective? Or do arguments not matter?