Across the Disciplines, a refereed journal devoted to language, learning, and academic writing, publishes articles relevant to writing and writing pedagogy in all their intellectual, political, social, and technological complexity. Across the Disciplines shares the mission of the WAC Clearinghouse in making information about writing and writing instruction freely available to members of the CAC, WAC, and ECAC communities.
Table of Contents for Volume 10, January through December 2013
Issue 1 (January through June)
Re-evaluating Directive Commentary in an Engineering Activity System, Martha Davis Patton and Summer Smith Taylor (1971-2011), University of Missouri, Columbia
This study examines the writing of 30 engineering students, faculty response, students' reading of the response, subsequent revision, and faculty evaluation to ask what factors contribute to constructive conversation about writing.
"At first I thought... but I don't know for sure": The Use of First Person Pronouns in the Academic Writing of Novices, Teresa Thonney, Columbia Basin College
This article describes a study of undergraduates' use of first person pronouns for courses in a range of disciplines.
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