WAC Bibliography

1. Aguilar, Irma. (1988). A medical-surgical nursing class participates in writing across the curriculum. In Killingsworth, Jimmie; Donald H. Cunningham; Laurie L. Jones (Eds.); Texas Tech University; Designing writing assignments for vocational-technical courses: A guide for teachers in the two-year college and technical institute; ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 298 331 (pp. 65-72).

Keywords: WAC, nursing-course, assignment, techcom, vocational, medical, surgical, participation

2. Dobie, Ann & Poirrier, Gail. (1996). When Nursing Students Write: Changing Attitudes. Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, 1(3), 23-33. https://doi.org/10.37514/LLD-J.1996.1.3.03

Annotation: This three-year study confirms several significant effects of using writing-to-learn techniques in the nursing classroom. Specifically, it provides evidence of three areas of positive impact: (1) improved student attitudes towards writing and learning, (2) strengthened student-teacher communication, and (3) increased student retention. As a result, the findings create a strong rationale for including writing to learn in the freshmen nursing curriculum, and perhaps for instituting it throughout the entire nursing program. [WAC Clearinghouse]

Keywords: nursing, WAC, change, student-attitude

3. Sheridan, Barrett E.; Helen Melville Jones. (1999). Assessment of changes in the level of critical thinking in nursing courses in Australian universities: A pilot study. Journal of Teaching Academic Survival Skills 01 (Winter/Spring), 40-62.

Keywords: critical-thinking, gain, nursing, WAC, argumentation, data, pre-post, pilot study, pilot study

4. Silva, Mary Cipriano; Ann H. Cary; Christopher Thaiss. (1999). When students can't write: Solutions through a writing-intensive nursing course. Nursing and Health Care Perspectives 20.3, 142-145.

Keywords: apprehension, nursing-course, pre-post, improvement, self-efficacy, assignment, letter-writing, academy-workplace, coaching, style, drafting, response, positive, writing-intensive

5. Sorrell, Jeanne. (2001). Stories in the Nursing Classroom: Writing and Learning through Stories. Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, 5(1), 36-48. https://doi.org/10.37514/LLD-J.2001.5.1.05

Annotation: This article discusses the use of stories to teach students important meanings of course content. In this discussion, the author discusses: (a) background information from the literature to make a case for teaching with stories, (b) therapeutic uses of storytelling, (c) strategies for using storytelling in teaching, and (d) telling stories beyond the classroom.

Keywords: WAC, WID, writing across the curriculum, writing to learn, nursing, story-telling, stories