Writing in the Arts and Sciences
- STEM, Writing, WID, WAC, Pedagogy
by Elaine P. Maimon, Gerald L. Belcher, Gail W. Hearn, Barbara F. Nodine, and Finbarr W. O'Connor
Digitized by the Colorado State University Libraries
Published by Winthrop Publishers in 1981, Writing in the Arts and Sciences is one of the first and certainly the most successful of the early textbooks that emerged from a WAC movement that was, when the book was first conceived, still in its first decade. Drawing from work at Beaver College (now Arcadia University) as well as a series of national seminars on WAC, the authors address both writing to learn and learning to write, with chapters devoted to writing in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In their preface, the authors observe, “Each discipline has traditions that shape the reading and writing of its practitioners, but these scholarly traditions, with their specialized procedures, conventions, and terminology, may appear to the student as mysterious rites of passage. The purpose of this text is to cast light on those mysterious academic rites that until recently have been open to too few.”
Table of Contents
WRITING TO LEARN
Writing in the Arts and Sciences
1. Studying the Academic Disciplines
2. Writing to See and to Think
LEARNING TO WRITE
Writing in the Humanities
6. Research Papers in the Humanities
Writing in the Social Sciences
9. Term Papers in the Social Sciences
11. Reporting Findings in the Social Sciences
Writing in the Natural Sciences
12. Recording Observations in the Natural Sciences
13. The Laboratory Report in the Natural Sciences
14. Review Paper in the Natural Sciences
Publication Information: Maimon, Elaine P., Gerald L. Belcher, Gail W. Hearn, Barbara F. Nodine, & Finbarr W. O'Connor. (2022). Writing in the Arts and Sciences. The WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/landmarks/maimon/ (Originally published in 1981 by Winthrop Publishers)
Publication Date: March 28, 2022
Contact Information: Elaine Maimon
Email: elaine@elainemaimon.com
Web: https://elainemaimon.com
Landmark Publications in Writing Studies
Series Editor: Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University
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