Introducing Bringing the Outside In: Internationalizing the WAC/WID Classroom
Abstract
Chapter 1 be especially important to undergraduate science students, whose confidence in their own abilities as writers may have been damaged by experiences with writing in the classroom during their schooling (Choi et al., 2010;Shanahan, 2004).Several of the scientists and mathematicians in this study discuss damaging experiences with school and English teachers in particular.The anxious mathematics student, sitting in a writing class, who reads this comment by a successful applied mathematician, What's interesting is I did mathematics, I think, because I found English so difficult . . .I failed . . . on English and I was fine on mathematics.I was top in maths but I was desperate in English.I can remember the essay.The title was "Your House."Now as a mathematician . . .I've got to write about my house.What is my house?And I went to numbers straight away.It's got five windows, it's got one door-this is age 10 or 11.I knew it was a disaster when I wrote it.But I was incapable of doing anything better-Timothy, Chapter 3. may recognise a similar incident of their own, and may never have realised that the successful science or mathematics professor in their writing classroom may have experienced this kind of setback.Reading of
- Journal
- Across the Disciplines
- Published
- 2018-01-01
- DOI
- 10.37514/atd-j.2018.15.1.01
- CompPile
- Open Access
- OA PDF Gold
- Topics
-
- Export
- BibTeX RIS
Citation context
Cited by in this index (1)
-
Goldsmith et al. (2025)Across the Disciplines
References (0)
No references on file for this article.
Related articles
-
Writing and Pedagogy Jun 2026Renée Bourgoin; Josée Le Bouthillier
-
Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2026“Review of Rethinking Peer Review: Critical Reflections on a Pedagogical Practice”: Rethinking Peer Review: Critical Reflections on a Critical Practice , by P. Jackson and C. Weaver Fort Collins, CO: The WAC Clearinghouse and Denver, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2024, 270 pp., $32.95 (paperback) Publisher website: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/peer/ ↗Joe Schicke
-
Pedagogy Oct 2025modern rhetorical theory rhetorical criticism genre theory cultural rhetorics first-year composition writing pedagogy advanced composition creative writing writing across the curriculum graduate education two-year college service learning teacher development technical communication professional writing labor and working conditions archival research multimodality artificial intelligence literacy studies race and writing gender and writing disability studies literary studies editorial matter
-
College Composition and Communication Sep 2025Christopher Basgier; Lydia Wilkes
-
Journal of Academic Writing Apr 2025Karla Csürös; Claudiu Gherasim; Mădălina Chitez