WAC Bibliography

1. Gladstein, Jill. (2008). Conducting Research in the Gray Space: How Writing Associates Negotiate BEtween WAC and WID in an Introductory Biology Course. Across the Disciplines, 5(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-J.2008.5.1.03

Keywords: WAC, teaching fellow, WAC, Swarthmore College, biology-course, case-study, ethnographic, peer-tutor, WID, symbiotic, introductory

2. Janick-Buckner, Diane. (1997). Getting undergraduates to critically read and discuss primary literature: Cultivating students' analytical abilities in an advanced cell biology course. Journal of College Science Teaching 27.1, 29-32.

Keywords: science-course, biology-course, scholarly-article, report-writing, oral-presentation, pedagogy, WAC, undergraduate

3. Richardson, Mark; Alison Morrison Shetlar; Robert Shetlar. (2003). 'Because his shell is empty': Writing poems about biology. Language and Learning Across the Disciplines 6.2. https://wac.colostate.edu/llad/v6n2/richardson.pdf

Annotation: This paper will review a poetry writing assignment used in both an introductory level General Biology class of 148 students and in a 200-level Cellular Biology class of 34 students. In addition, it will consider two group-written poems composed in a first-year composition course linked to the General Biology class, demonstrating how writing poetry about technical material not only promotes the acquisition of knowledge but also stimulates critical and creative thinking, leading to a more accurate understanding of the material and to a deeper appreciation of the subject.

Keywords: WAC, WID, writing across the curriculum, poetry, biology

4. Rosenbaum, Nina. (1981). Writing in the biology classroom. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 244 275.

Keywords: WAC, biology-course

5. Shea, George Bernard, Jr. (1991). Writing, drawing, photographing: Composing texts to learn in a biology class [doctoral thesis]. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

Keywords: biology, WAC, improvement, write-to-learn, graphic, drawing, photography

6. Stotz, Nancy G. (1998). The biology classroom: A natural place for narrative. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 429 293.

Keywords: biology-course, narrative, pedagogy, WAC, narrative

7. Szymanski, Erika Amethyst. (2014). Instructor Feedback in Upper-Division Biology Courses: Moving from Spelling and Syntax to Scientific Discourse. Across the Disciplines, 11(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-J.2014.11.2.06

Keywords: WID, WAC, STEM-writing, science-writing, discourse-community, feedback, mixed methods, life-sciences, science-course