writing+across+curriculum

=Resources related to "writing across the curriculum" aka writing in all content areas, are here.=

Are Our Students College Writing Ready? What High Schools Can Do to Help
An article by Steven Horwitz, who runs a first-year orientation program at St. Lawrence University in Canton NY, originally published in Education Week on Sept. 5, 2007.

Writing Across the Curriculum
From [|Teaching That Makes Sense]™ a great 34-page guide to writing for content area teachers. Make sure to check out the "Writing Across the Curriculum" organizer at the end of the document. Other terrific downloads from this site (green sidebar on left) for content teachers include [|Read Like a Reader, Read Like a Writer], and [|Writing Assessment].

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) initiatives
Colleges have realized the importance of incorporating more writing into all kinds of subject courses. Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) are interdisciplinary initiatives to support professors as they work to make writing an integral part of their courses. These efforts go from tip sheets to one-on-one help for faculty to seminars with intensive work to redesign coursework/syllabi to include more writing. Below are links to work from some colleges.

[|Creating Effective Writing Assignments] From the Writing Center at MIT, this webpage provides a list of questions, focusing on defining the writing task, the audience, writer's role and evaluative criteria, to help faculty create effective writing assignments for students .

[|Writing in the Disciplines at LaGuardia Community College -- Designing Writing Assignments] Describes and gives examples of "low-stakes writing" assignments (designed to develop students' understanding and their ability to communicate it), high-stakes writing (more polished writing) and "staging writing" designed to move students from low-stakes writing to high stage. There are also examples of [|sample writing assignments] designed by participants in the LaGuardia WID program. [|Sample WID faculty portoflios] provides examples and guidelines of what teachers working on such a project should include as documentation of the process.

[|Journal Writing] A common assignment in college-level classes, easy to adapt to high school. This CUNY site discusses different kinds of reading journals, observation and logs, and has [|examples of journal and log assignments] from various CUNY campuses.