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  • 11 Oct 09
    mcteach
    Karen McMillan

    writing curriculum

  • quirkytech
    Diane Quirk

    writing literacy voicethread digital_storytelling

  • mguhlin
    Miguel guhlin
    • classrooms in which "students talk, read, and write frequently [are] places where they learn better and their learning lasts longer" (Blalock & Nagelhout, 1997). "No matter what the subject," asserts the LALAC Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English, "the people who read it, write it, and talk it are the ones who learn it best."
    • As Abdullah (2003) notes, "the malleable nature of electronic text has made the physical process of composing more 'elastic' in that writers are quicker to commit thought to writing and to reorganize content...."
  • 28 Feb 09
    screamingego
    David Vega

    WAC

    • More a commitment to a set of core principles than to a rigid set of practices, writing across the curriculum (WAC) may look quite different from one school to the next, even within the same district. Uniting all these different programs, however, is the belief that language is "integral to learning as well as to communication in all disciplines" (Farrell-Childers, Gere, & Young, 1994, p. 2). According to Robert Bangert-Drowns, faculty researcher at the University at Albany, SUNY who recently completed a meta-analysis on writing to learn:



      WAC seeks three things: to increase the frequency of student writing, to integrate and elaborate writing strategies throughout the different content areas, and to promote the instrumental use of writing as a tool for other academic ends.... Seen in this way, WAC is more than just writing instruction, more than just making students write more, more than trying to get students to write better. It is the strategic integration of carefully designed writing tasks in any content area to serve the ends of learning, authentic communication, personal engagement, and reflective authorship. (personal communication, 2004)