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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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- A panoramic view of college writing
- Limited purposes, narrow audiences : the rhetorical situations of college writing
- Social action, social inaction : the genres of college writing
- Each course is a community : the discourse communities of college writing
- The power of writing across the curriculum : writing assignments in WAC courses
- Implications for teachers, tutors, and WAC practitioners
- Appendix A : institutions surveyed
- Appendix B : sample coded assignments
- References
- Index.