supporting scholarly exchange about communication across the curriculum
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What kinds of writing can I include? What is writing in the disciplines? Do I have to be an expert in grammar? Do writing and peer review take up too much class time? How can I avoid getting lousy student papers? What makes a good writing assignment? How can I get the most out of peer-review? Why consider collaborative writing assignments? What writing resources are available for my students? What teaching resources are available?
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An Introduction to WAC Teacher Comments: The range of writing required of professionals in civil engineering
Interviewer: What kinds of communication do your students do? Neil Grigg, Civil Engineering: I approach it as thinking about kinds of communication they're going to do in the workplace. There's a series of communication vehicles that our students seem to be unfamiliar with. Fundamental things like a business letter, an internal memorandum, a policy statement, which may be in the form of a memorandum. Various kinds. A lot of graphics. Executive summaries, technical papers for journals, speeches, or they may have to write for . . . . What else? Tom Siller, Civil Engineering: Codes. Interviewer: Is that similar to specs? Tom Siller: No. Some of our engineers will be involved with writing specs, those codes, being involved with those writing standards versus specifications which are for a particular job. Neil Grigg: Requests for proposals. In speeches, you have to have a good presentation, and that requires writing. I think they need to be able to do expository writing and to do various forms of that. |
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