Assignments across the Curriculum : A National Study of College Writing /
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 sci...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
[2014]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. A Panoramic View of College Writing; 2. Limited Purposes, Narrow Audiences: The Rhetorical Situations of College Writing; 3. Social Action, Social Inaction: The Genres of College Writing; 4. Each Course Is a Community: The Discourse Communities of College Writing; 5. The Power of Writing across the Curriculum: Writing Assignments in WAC Courses; 6. Implications for Teachers, Tutors, and WAC Practitioners; Appendix A: Institutions Surveyed; Appendix B: Sample Coded Assignments; References; Index.