WAC Bibliography

1. Abdalla, Adil E. A. (1993). A country report project for an international economics class. Journal of Economic Education 24.3, 231-236.

Keywords: economics-course, report-writing, assignment, sample, WAC

2. Cain, Mary Ann. (1989). Examining our own lenses: An ethnographic study of an economics classroom. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 307 613.

Keywords: ethnographic, economics-course, WAC, participant-research, interpretive, research-method, perspectival

3. Dorina Tila. (2022). Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Assignment in Macroeconomics: Collect, Analyze, Interpret and Implement Policies based on Economic Indicators. Prompt, 6.2, 122-133. https://doi.org/10.31719/pjaw.v6i2.99

Annotation: This article shares an assignment that has been successfully implemented in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) macroeconomic courses available to major and non-major undergraduate students enrolled in the City University of New York (CUNY) Kingsborough Community College. While the outcome at the end of the semester is a paper of about three pages, the steps designed to assist students with completing it are important because they provide a detailed research and investigation guide. The assignment is composed of a series of scaffolded tasks that engage students in data collection, data analysis, and interpretation using economic theory of the subject area, presentation of the actual findings compared to predictions of economic theory, and investigation and interpretation for convergence and/or divergence from the economic theory. This assignment is based on prior research on the benefits of assigning writing in economics courses and aims to achieve the outcomes described by the structure of cognitive process dimension of the revised Bloom’s taxonomy (Bloom et al., 1956; Krathwohl, 2002).

Keywords: research based learning, wac, online

4. Templeton, Jeff. (1978). From the student perspective: Writing instruction in economics classes. Writing as a Liberating Activity Newsletter, No. 12, 3-4. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/comppile/archives/wla/WLA12.pdf

Keywords: student-opinion, WAC, economics-course, group, peer-evaluation, term-paper, revising, school

5. Tobey, D. M. (1979). Writing instruction in economics courses: Experimentation across disciplines. Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council 08.2, 159-164.

Keywords: WAC, economics-course, critical-thinking, experimentation