Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular History - Softcover

David R. Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809324679 ISBN 13: 9780809324675

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 2002

Synopsis

To understand the ways students learn to write, we must go beyond the small and all too often marginalized component of the curriculum that treats writing explicitly and look at the broader, though largely tacit traditions students encounter in the whole curriculum, explains David R. Russell, in the introduction to this singular study. The updated edition provides a comprehensive history of writing instruction outside general composition courses in American secondary and higher education, from the founding of public secondary schools and research universities in the 1870s, through the spread of the writing-across-the-curriculum movement in the 1980s, through the WAC efforts in contemporary curriculums.

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About the Author

David R. Russell is a professor of English at Iowa State University, where he teaches rhetoric and professional communication. He has published many articles on writing across the curriculum and has coedited Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum, a special issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity, and Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective: Transitions from Secondary to Higher Education. He has given workshops and lectures on writing across the curriculum nationally and internationally, and he was the first Knight Visiting Scholar in Writing at Cornell University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809324679
• ISBN 13: 9780809324675
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432