Purdue OWL: Writing Across the Curriculum: An Introduction - 0 views
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This pedagogical approach values writing as a method of learning.
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Keith Hamon on 22 Mar 11Writing to learn content is a valuable academic skill, but it overlooks the importance of social networking.
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This approach recognizes that each discipline has its own unique language conventions, format, and structure. In other words, the style, organization, and format that is acceptable in one discipline may not be at all acceptable in another.
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This gets a bit closer to social networking, but it implies an awkward approach to learning a group's language conventions. Most people learn a new group's language conventions by (1) wanting to belong to the group, (2) listening to learn the conversation, and (3) engaging in the group's conversation. How many of our students want to join our groups and learn our language conventions?
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a pedagogical movement that began in the 1980s. Generally, writing across the curriculum programs share the philosophy that writing instruction should happen across the academic community and throughout a student's undergraduate education. Writing across the curriculum programs also value writing as a method of learning. Finally, writing across the curriculum acknowledges the differences in writing conventions across the disciplines, and believes that students can best learn to write in their areas by practicing those discipline-specific writing conventions.