Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum - Diverse Approaches and Practices

List of contents

Preface-The WAC Archives Revisited
Introduction-Assumptions About Assessing WAC Programs: Some Axioms, Some Observations, Some Context
From Conduit to Customer: The Role of WAC Faculty in WAC Assessment
Documenting Excellence in Teaching and Learning in WAC Programs
Contextual Evaluation in WAC Programs: Theories, Issues, and Strategies for Teachers
Beyond Accountability: Reading With Faculty as Partners Across the Disciplines
How Portfolios for Proficiency Help Shape a WAC Program
Listening as Assessment: How Students and Teachers Evaluate WAC
Program Review, Program Renewal
The Crazy Quilt of Writing Across the Curriculum: Achieving WAC Program Assessment
Integrating WAC Into General Education: An Assessment Case Study
Adventures in the WAC Assessment Trade: Reconsidering the Link Between Research and Consultation
Research and WAC Evaluation: An In-Progress Reflection
WAC Assessment and Internal Audiences: A Dialogue
Pragmatism, Positivism, and Program Evaluation
Author Index
Subject Index

Product details

• Authors: Brian Huot, Kathleen Blake Yancey
• Assisted by: Huot Brian (Editor), Kathleen Blake Yancey (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.1997
• EAN: 9781567503135
• ISBN: 978-1-56750-313-5
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Palaeography (History Of Writing), Palaeography, Current Events and Issues: Education