Discipline-focused Writing Across the Curriculum Resources

Biology, Chemistry, and Physics

• Ambron, Joanne. “Writing to Improve Learning in Biology.” Journal of College Science Teaching (February 1987).
• Hearn, Gail W. “Writing in Ecology and the Ecology of Writing.” Private Insights and Public Statements. Elaine Maimon, Barbara F. Nodine, Gail W. Hearn, and Janice Haney-Peritz. Programs that Work. Ed. Toby Fulwiler and Art Young. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook/Heineman, 1990. 12-18.
• McMillen, Liz. “Science and Math Professors are Assigning Writing Drills to Focus Student’s Thinking.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 1986).
• Powell, Alfred. “A Chemist’s View of Writing, Reading, and Thinking Across the Curriculum.” College Composition and Communication 36 #4 (December 1985): 414-418.
• Schlein, Jack. “Writing to Learn: A Perspective.” York College [Biology].

Composition and Literary Studies

• Anderson, Worth et al. “Cross-Curricular Underlife: A Collaborative Report on Ways with Academic Words.” College Composition and Communication, 41 (1990): 11-36.
• Bazerman, Charles. “What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse.” Landmark Essays in Writing Across the Curriculum. Ed. Charles Bazerman and David Russell. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1994. 159-88.
• Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996.
• Elbow, Peter. “High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing.” New Directions in Teaching and Learning, 69 (1997): 5-13.
  ---. Writing with Power. 
• Fulwiler, Toby. “The Argument for Writing Across the Curriculum.” Writing Across the Disciplines. 1986. 21-32.
  ---. “Why We Teach Writing in the First Place.” Forum: Essays on Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing. Ed. P. Stock. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1983. 273-86.
• Haney-Peritz, Janice. “In Medias Res: Reflections and Assignments in Composition and Literature.” Private Insights and Public Statements. Elaine Maimon, Barbara F. Nodine, Gail W. Hearn, and Janice Haney-Peritz. Programs that Work. Ed. Toby Fulwiler and Art Young. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook/Heineman, 1990. 19-26.
• Haswell, Richard H. “Minimal Marking.” College English, 45 (1983): 600-04.
  Herrington, Anne J. “Writing to Learn: Writing Across the Disciplines.” College English, 43 (1981): 379-87.
• Holderer, Robert W. “Holistic Scoring: A Valuable Tool for Improving Writing Across the Curriculum.” Writing Center Perspectives. 133-45.
• Kinneavy, James. “Writing Across the Curriculum.” Landmark Essays in Writing Across the Curriculum. Ed. Charles Bazerman and David Russell. 65-78.
• Knoblauch, C.H. and Lil Brannon. “Writing as Learning Through the Curriculum.” College English, 45 (1983): 465-74.
• Law, Joe. “Serving Faculty and Writing Across the Curriculum.” The Writing Center Resource Manual. IV, 4. Wright State University. 
• Mahala, Daniel. “Writing Utopias: Writing Across the Curriculum and the Promise of Reform.” College English: 773-89.
• Maimon, Elaine. “Getting the Conversation Started.” Private Insights and Public Statements. Elaine Maimon, Barbara F. Nodine, Gail W. Hearn, and Janice Haney-Peritz. Programs that Work. Ed. Toby Fulwiler and Art Young. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook/Heineman, 1990.
  ---. “15 Ideas from Elaine Maimon.” York College.
• Malinowitz, Harriet. “A Feminist Critique of Writing In the Disciplines.”
  McCarthy, Lucille Parkinson. “A Stranger in a Strange Land: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum.” Landmark Essays in Writing Across the Curriculum. Ed. Charles Bazerman and David Russell. 125-55.
• Moss, Andrew and Carol Holder. “Seventeen Suggestions for Making and Presenting Writing Assignments” and “Assignments that Work.” Improving Student Writing. California State University.
• Mullin, Joan and Neil Reid, Doug Enders, and Jason Baldridge. “Constructing Each Other: Collaborating Across Disciplines and Roles.” 153-170.
• Murray, Donald. “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product.” Cross-talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Ed. Victor Villanueva, Jr. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997. 3-6.
• Russell, David R. “Writing Across the Curriculum in Historical Perspective.” College English, 52 (1990): 52-73.
  ---. “The Writing Across the Curriculum Movement, 1970-1990.” Writing in the Academic Disciplines, 1870-1990: A Curricular History. Carbondale and 
  Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. 271-307.
• Sommers, Nancy. “Between the Drafts.” Women/Writing/Teaching. Ed. Jan Zlotnik Schmidt. Albany: SUNY Press 1998. 165-175.
• Soven, Margot. “Designing Writing Assignments: Some New Considerations.” Kansas English, 76 (Fall 1990): 11-19.
• Sternglass, Marilyn. “Writing Demands in Relation to Composition Instruction” and “Implications for Instruction and Research.” Time to Know Them. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997. 114-294.
• Walvoord, Barbara F. “The Future of WAC.” College English 58 (1996): 58-79.
  ---, and John r. Breihan. “Arguing and Debating: Breihan’s History Course.” Thinking and Writing in College: A Naturalistic Study of Students in Four Disciplines. Ed. Barbara Walvoord and Lucille P. McCarthy. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1990. 97-143.
• Zamel, Vivian. “Responding to Student Writing.” TESOL Quarterly 19 (1985): 79-101.
  ---. “Writing: The Process of Discovering Meaning.” TESOL Quarterly 16 (1982): 195-209.

English as a Second Language/Dialect

• Valdes, Guadalupe. “Bilingual Minorities and Language Issues in Writing: Toward Professional Responses to a New Challenge.” Written Communication, 9 (Jan 1992): 85-136.
• Zamel, Vivian. “Questioning Academic Discourse.” College ESL 3 (1993).
  ---. “Strangers in Academia: The Experiences of Faculty and ESL Students Across the Curriculum.” CCC 46.4 (1995): 506-521.

History

• Bass, Randy. “Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History.” American Studies Crossroads Project.

Mathematics

• King, Barbara. “Using Writing in the Mathamatics Class: Theory and Practice.” Teaching Writing in All Disciplines, ed. Williams Griffin. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982.
• Kozlov, Alex. “Teaching Students to Speak (And Write).” SIAM News (March 1987).
• Senk, Sharon L. “How Well Do Students Write Geometry Proofs?” Mathamatics Teacher (September 1985).
• Watson, M. “Writing Has a Place in a Mathamatics Class.” Mathematics Teacher 73 (October 1980): 518-19.

Music

• Dir Yanni, Robert. “Sound and Sense: Writing About Music.” Journal of Basic Writing (Spring/Summer 1980): 25.

Nursing

• Clark, C. C. “Journal Writing.” Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators: 230-239. New York: Springer Publishing Co., Inc., 1978.
• Cooper, Signe S. “Methods of Teaching – Revisited: Experiential Diaries and Learning Logs.” Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing 13 #6 (1982): 32-4.
• Pinkstaff, Elizabeth. “An Experience in Narrative Writing to Improve Public Health Practice by Students.” Journal of Nursing 24 #1 (January 1985).

Social Sciences

• Nodine, Barbara F. “Assignments in Psychology: Writing to Learn.” Private Insights and Public Statements. Elaine Maimon, Barbara F. Nodine, Gail W. Hearn, and Janice Haney-Peritz. Programs that Work. Ed. Toby Fulwiler and Art Young. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook/Heineman, 1990.

Studio Art and Art History

• Thaler, Ruth. “Art and the Written Word.” Journal of Basic Writing (Spring/Summer 1980): 72-81.