Writing Assignments Across University Disciplines - Couverture rigide

Graves, Roger; Hyland, Theresa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1490784039 ISBN 13 : 9781490784038

Editeur : Trafford Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Writing Assignments Across the University Curriculum as a whole asks and answers these questions: What kinds of documents do students write in a wide range of university degree programs in Canada? How do instructors structure those writing assignments? That is, who is the audience for the assignments? Do students get formative feedback as they develop their documents? Do the patterns we found in a small liberal arts college (Graves, Hyland, and Samuels 2010) occur in other kinds of universities? We took our cue from an article by Anson and Dannels (2009) who pointed us toward the idea that students experience a curriculum through their degree progress in an academic program. Consequently, we needed to map the writing assignments according to how different departments organized these degree programs. Results that were organized by curricular unit (departments, faculties or colleges, or programs/units) were more significant than general statistics because students would progress through these courses to a degree. Several chapters in the book describe how this kind of curricular mapping provided a spark for curricular reform in Engineering, Education, and an entire small university. The last two chapters report on the instructors? perspective on their assignments: what they were intending to do, and why they both resisted and engaged in curricular discussions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Trafford Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1490784039
• ISBN 13: 9781490784038
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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