Writing beyond the Curriculum: Transition, Transfer, and Transformation

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Main Authors: Lettner-Rust, Heather G., Tracy, Pamela J., Booker, Susan L., Kocevar-Weidinger, Elizabeth, Burges, Jená B.
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Language:en
Published: 2007
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author Lettner-Rust, Heather G.
Tracy, Pamela J.
Booker, Susan L.
Kocevar-Weidinger, Elizabeth
Burges, Jená B.
author_facet Lettner-Rust, Heather G.
Tracy, Pamela J.
Booker, Susan L.
Kocevar-Weidinger, Elizabeth
Burges, Jená B.
Lettner-Rust, Heather G.
Tracy, Pamela J.
Booker, Susan L.
Kocevar-Weidinger, Elizabeth
Burges, Jená B.
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contents Writing beyond the Curriculum: Transition, Transfer, and Transformation Lettner-Rust, Heather G. Tracy, Pamela J. Booker, Susan L. Kocevar-Weidinger, Elizabeth Burges, Jená B. Writing Across the Curriculum Curriculum Development General Education Writing (Composition) Advanced Courses Educational Change Teacher Role Librarians Library Role Educational Practices Teacher Student Relationship Citizen Participation Student Centered Learning Student Research Interdisciplinary Approach Seminars Writing Processes Writing Instruction College English Transformative Learning College Seniors The authors describe how their institution revised its general education writing curriculum and how that change not only affected the university's approach to advanced composition but also transformed the roles and relationships among teachers, librarians, literacy practices, curricula, students, and the community. Part service-learning, part civic engagement, part student-directed research, and part interdisciplinary senior seminar, the course at the heart of the change combines a variation of writing-as-process with a substantial shift in writing-across-thecurriculum practices. The authors outline the course's establishment, discuss what various constituents have experienced, and argue for the transformation of higher education's mission from an instructional paradigm to a learning paradigm.
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spellingShingle Writing beyond the Curriculum: Transition, Transfer, and Transformation
Lettner-Rust, Heather G.
Tracy, Pamela J.
Booker, Susan L.
Kocevar-Weidinger, Elizabeth
Burges, Jená B.
Writing Across the Curriculum
Curriculum Development
General Education
Writing (Composition)
Advanced Courses
Educational Change
Teacher Role
Librarians
Library Role
Educational Practices
Teacher Student Relationship
Citizen Participation
Student Centered Learning
Student Research
Interdisciplinary Approach
Seminars
Writing Processes
Writing Instruction
College English
Transformative Learning
College Seniors
Writing beyond the Curriculum: Transition, Transfer, and Transformation Lettner-Rust, Heather G. Tracy, Pamela J. Booker, Susan L. Kocevar-Weidinger, Elizabeth Burges, Jená B. Writing Across the Curriculum Curriculum Development General Education Writing (Composition) Advanced Courses Educational Change Teacher Role Librarians Library Role Educational Practices Teacher Student Relationship Citizen Participation Student Centered Learning Student Research Interdisciplinary Approach Seminars Writing Processes Writing Instruction College English Transformative Learning College Seniors The authors describe how their institution revised its general education writing curriculum and how that change not only affected the university's approach to advanced composition but also transformed the roles and relationships among teachers, librarians, literacy practices, curricula, students, and the community. Part service-learning, part civic engagement, part student-directed research, and part interdisciplinary senior seminar, the course at the heart of the change combines a variation of writing-as-process with a substantial shift in writing-across-thecurriculum practices. The authors outline the course's establishment, discuss what various constituents have experienced, and argue for the transformation of higher education's mission from an instructional paradigm to a learning paradigm.
title Writing beyond the Curriculum: Transition, Transfer, and Transformation
topic Writing Across the Curriculum
Curriculum Development
General Education
Writing (Composition)
Advanced Courses
Educational Change
Teacher Role
Librarians
Library Role
Educational Practices
Teacher Student Relationship
Citizen Participation
Student Centered Learning
Student Research
Interdisciplinary Approach
Seminars
Writing Processes
Writing Instruction
College English
Transformative Learning
College Seniors
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1116404