Writing Across the Curriculum

Resources

What is WAC? General Information/Practices

Compiled by Joan Mullin, University of Texas at Austin
Updated: May, 2005

The best guide for everyone concerned about writing/thinking/researching in their discipline is John Bean’s Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996).

Print: General Sources

Bartholomae, David. "Inventing the University". Journal of Basic Writing 5.1 (1986): 4-23.

Bean, John C., Dean Drenk, and F.D. Lee. “Microtheme Strategies for Developing Cognitive Skills.” Teaching Writing in All Disciplines. Ed. C. Williams Griffin. New Directions for Teaching and Learning Series, vol 12. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982, 27-38.

Courses For Change in Writing. Eds. Carl H. Klaus and Nancy Jones. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1984.

Fforum: Essays on Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing . Ed. Patricia Stock. Upper Montclair, New Jersey: Boynton/Cook. 1983.

Fulwiler, Toby. Teaching With Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1987

_____ "Writing: An Act of Cognition." Teaching Writing in All Disciplines. Ed. C. Williams Griffin. New Directions for Teaching and Learning Series, vol 12. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982, 15-23.

_____"Writing is Everybody's Business" Phi Kappa Phi Journal 65.4 (fall 1985): 21-24.

Herrington, Anne J. "Writing to Learn: Writing Across the Disciplines" College English, 43.4 (April 1981): 379-387.

_____and Charles Moran. Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. New York: MLA, 1992.

Journal Book. Ed. Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1987.

Language Connections: Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Eds. Toby Fulwiler and Art Young. Urbana. Illinois: NCTE, 1982.

New Methods in College Writing Practices: Theories in Practice. Eds. Paul Connolly and Teresa Vilardi. New York: MLA, 1986.

Odell, Lee. "The Process of Writing and the Process of Learning." College Composition and Communication 31.1 (Feb 1980): 42-50.

Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum. Eds. Toby Fulwiler and Art Young. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1990.

Strengthening Programs for Writing Across the Curriculum. Ed. Susan H. McLeod. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988.

Walvoord, Barbara and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy. Thinking and Writing in College: A Naturalistic Study of Students in Four Disciplines Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, 1990. [Business, History Psychology, Biology]

Writing Across The Disciplines: Research into Practice. Eds. Toby Fulwiler and Art Young. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1986.

Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines. Eds. Mary Deane Sorcinelli and Peter Elbow. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, New Directions in Teaching and Learning Series, no. 69, spring, 1997.

Yancy, Kathleen Blake and Brian Huot. “Assessing Journals in the Disciplines: An Inductive Inquiry.” The Journal Book. Eds. Susan Gardner and Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 158-67.

Web Sites: General Information, Programs and Practices

Colorado State University. Across the Disciplines http://wac.colostate.edu/links/ A general WAC clearinghouse site that links to other WAC programs.

_____ Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, at http://wac.colostate.edu/llad/ The on-line journal of research on writing in the disciplines.

_____ WAC Clearinghouse Bibliography. http://wac.colostate.edu/bib/index.cfm

_____Colorado State Writing Center Teaching Guides. http://writing.colostate.edu/teaching_guides.cfm

University of Hawaii-Manoa. Manoa Writing Program Teacher Resources Page http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources.htm

Young, Art. Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum. Available in Adobe format at http://wac.colostate.edu/books/

Discipline and Area Specific Resources

Economics (See also Social Sciences)

Marquette University. Writing in the Arts and Sciences at Marquette: Writing in Economics Courses. http://academic.mu.edu/aswriting/econ.htm

McCloskey, D. N. The Writing of Economics. New York: MacMillan, 1987.

Sahi, Simran. Economics 4431W: International Trade. University of Minnesota Center for Writing. http://writing.umn.edu/tww/WID/social_sciences/syllabi/econ1.htm

University of Indiana-Bloomington, Campus Writing Program. Articles on Writing Across the Curriculum—Economics. http://www.iub.edu/~cwp/lib/wacecon.shtml

Education (See also specific disciplinary concentrations)

Danielewicz, Jane. “Writing Letters Instead of Journals in a Teacher-Education Course.” The Journal Book. Eds. Susan Gardner and Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 92-105.

Manoa Writing Program Teacher Resources. Examples from the Disciplines: Using “I-Search” Reports in Education.

Manoa Writing Program Teacher Resources. Examples from the Disciplines: Analyzing mathematical concepts & problem-solving processes. http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/elemmath.htm

Vogt MaryEllen and Keith Vogt. “Electronic Journals: Encouraging Reflection in Preservice Teachers,” The Journal Book. Eds. Susan Gardner and Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 80-91.

English (See also General WAC Articles )

Barnet, Sylvan and William E. Cain. A Short Guide to Writing About Literature (Eighth Edition). NY: Longman, 2001.

Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing About Film. NY: Longman, 2001. There is a useful accompanying website with research links for each Short Guide: http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/shortguides_awl/medialib/intro.html

Fulwiler, Toby. College Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991.

____"Writing across the Curriculum: Implications for Teaching Literature." ADE Bulletin 88 (Winter 1987): 35-40.

Hult Christine. Research and Writing in the Arts and Humanities. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.

Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum. Eds. Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994.

Pagnucci, Gian. “TechJournals: Electronic Journal Keeping for the Technical Writing Classroom,” The Journal Book. Eds. Susan Gardner and Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 106-118.

Sargent, M. Elizabeth. “Peer Response to Low Stakes Writing in a WAC Literature Classroom.” Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines. Eds. Mary Deane Sorcinelli and Peter Elbow. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, New Directions in Teaching and Learning Series, no. 69, spring, 1997. 41-52.

When Writing Teachers Teach Literature. Eds. Art Young and Toby Fulwiler. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman Boynton/Cook, 1995.

Foreign Languages

Dartmouth Writing Program. Ideas for Teaching Writing in the Humanities: Spanish.http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/faculty/humanities/spanish.shtml

Manoa Writing Program Teacher Resources. Examples from the Disciplines: Developing Writing Fluency in a Foreign Language. http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/spanish300.htm

Marquette University. Writing in the Arts and Sciences at Marquette: Writing in Foreign Languages and Literatures Courses. http://academic.mu.edu/aswriting/forlang.htm

Geography (See also Social Sciences)

Curry, Michael R. The Work in the Field: Geographic Practice and the Written Word. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Libbee, Michael and Dennis Young. "Teaching Writing in Geography Classes." Journal of Geography (Jan/Feb 1983): 23-26.

Manoa Writing Program Teacher Resources. Examples from the Disciplines: Writing and Thinking Critically About the City.

Till, Karen E. Geography 1301: Introduction to Human Geography. University of Minnesota Center for Writing. http://writing.umn.edu/tww/WID/social_sciences/syllabi/geography1.htm

History

Boston University Department of History. Writing Guide. http://www.bu.edu/history/writing_guide.html

Hult Christine. Research and Writing in the Arts and Humanities. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.

Korbin, David. Beyond the Textbook: Teaching History Using Documents and Primary Resources. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996.

Marius, Richard. A Short Guide to Writing About History (Third Edition). NY: Longman, 2001. There is a useful accompanying website with research links for each Short Guide: http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/shortguides_awl/medialib/intro.html

Naitove, Christine & Barbara Bartle. "A European History Course that Stresses Writing and Reasoning Skills." AHA Perspectives 21. 6 (Sept. 1983): 16-21.

Sutter Fichtner, Paula. “Teaching—When Writing Comes across the Curriculum to History.” Perspectives: Newsletter of the American Historical Association 38.8 (2000): 31-5.

Walvoord, Barbara and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy. Thinking and Writing in College: A Naturalistic Study of Students in Four Disciplines. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, 1990. Covers Business, History, Psychology, Biology.

Philosophy

Fishman, Stephen M. “Student Wiring in Philosophy: A Sketch of Five Techniques.” Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines. Eds. Mary Deane Sorcinelli and Peter Elbow. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, New Directions in Teaching and Learning Series, no. 69, spring, 1997. 53-66.

Manoa Writing Program Teacher Resources. Examples from the Disciplines: Writing Philosophy.

Manoa Writing Program Teacher Resources. Examples from the Disciplines: Sculpting Philosophical Meaning.

Marquette University. Writing in the Arts and Sciences at Marquette: Writing in Philosophy Courses. http://academic.mu.edu/aswriting/phil.htm

Oregon State University, Department of Philosophy. Writing Philosophy Papers: A Student Guide. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/philosophy/resources/resources/guidestuff/index.html

Political Science (see also Social Sciences)

Biddle, Arthur W. and Kenneth M. Holland. Writer's Guide: Political Science. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company, 1987.

Marquette University. Writing in the Arts and Sciences at Marquette: Writing in Political Science Courses. http://academic.mu.edu/aswriting/polisci.htm

Oregon State University, Department of Political Science. A Student Writer’s Survival Guide. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/pol_sci/wicguide.htm

Ron, Amit. Political Science 3835: International Relations. University of Minnesota Center for Writing. http://writing.umn.edu/tww/WID/social_sciences/syllabi/pol3835.htm

Psychology (See also Social Sciences)

George Mason University. A Guide to Writing in Psychology. http://www.gmu.edu/departments/psychology/writing/

Manoa Writing Program Teacher Resources. Examples from the Disciplines: Experiencing & Understanding Sensory Processes.

Marquette University. Writing in the Arts and Sciences at Marquette: Writing in Psychology Courses. http://academic.mu.edu/aswriting/psyc.htm

University of Washington Psychology Writing Center. http://depts.washington.edu/psywc/

Social Sciences: General Information/Practices

Becker, Howard S. Writing For Social Scientists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Cuba, Lee. A Short Guide to Writing About Social Science (Third Edition). New York: Longman, 2001. There is a useful accompanying website with research links for each Short Guide: http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/shortguides_awl/medialib/intro.html

Friedman, Sharon and Stephen Steinberg. Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.

Marquette University. Writing in the Arts and Sciences at Marquette: Writing in Social and Cultural Science Courses. http://academic.mu.edu/aswriting/socs.htm

University of Minnesota Center for Writing. Teaching with Writing: Social Sciences Syllabi. http://writing.umn.edu/tww/syllabi/disciplines/socsci_syllabi.htm

Writing at Colorado State University. Quantitative and Qualitative Research.

Sociology (see also Social Sciences)

Colorado State University Writing Center. Ethnography, Observational Research, and Narrative Inquiry

Dartmouth Writing Program. Ideas for Teaching Writing in the Social Sciences. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/faculty/soc_sciences/sociology.shtml

Manoa Writing Program Teacher Resources. Examples from the Disciplines: Explaining Human Behavior in Sociological Language.

Women’s and Gender Studies (see also English, Social Sciences, Theater/Film, etc.)

Faery, Rebecca Blevins. "Women and Writing Across the Curriculum: Learning and Liberation." Teaching Writing: Pedagogy, Gender, & Equity. 1987. 201-212