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Engaging Ideas by Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (2nd ed.). John C. Bean. Jossey-Bass.
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780470532904
Publication Date: 2011
This book remains one of the best resources for teachers who want to promote better learning in their courses, and it provides smart ideas for communication assignments that can help achieve that goal. Available through UW Libraries.

"An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum." The WAC Clearinghouse. Colorado State University. 2014.
“Foregrounding the Disciplines in Secondary Literacy and Learning: A Call for Change.” Elizabeth Birr Moje. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 52.2. Oct. 2008.
Moje provides examples of disciplinary differences between natural science, history, and mathematics, and argues that effective learning requires content knowledge plus knowledge of disciplinary conventions as well as an identity connected to the discipline. (UW-restricted)
A Statement of WAC Practice and Principles
Endorsed by the International Network of WAC Programs, Feb. 2014. This short document provides a quick overview to the philosophy and key approaches to writing/communicating across the disciplines.

Rick Fisher

USP COM Coordinator

Assistant Lecturer for the Department of English

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