Special Issue: Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum

secondary education, WAC, student writing, scientific writing, writing center, international, common core, Literacy, Pedagogy

Published December 8, 2012

Guest editors: Pamela B. Childers and Michael J. Lowry, The McCallie School

Writing in secondary schools is a multidisciplinary enterprise that involves nearly every course in the curriculum. Students often indicate on surveys that they do a substantial amount of writing in history, science, foreign language and seminar classes in other disciplines, suggesting a clear need for further research and investigation. While Sommers and Saltz (2004) as well as Lunsford and Lunsford (2008) have given English teachers a fairly clear understanding of what students are required to do in FYC classes when they reach college, one important question still remains: How are students—in both college-prep and non-college-prep courses—writing to learn and learning to write disciplinary discourse in secondary schools? This special issue sheds light on the experiences our students have before entering higher education and the role disciplines other than English have had on their writing.

Special Issue: Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum

Published December 8, 2012

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