The WAC Casebook Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development

by Anson, Chris M.

• ISBN13: 9780195127751
• ISBN10: 0195127757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development is an invaluable resource for instructors in any discipline who want to incorporate writing effectively into their courses and curriculums. Editor Chris M. Anson brings together forty-five actual or highly realisticscenarios that anticipate the range of situations instructors typically confront in writing across the curriculum programs. The cases are deliberately open-ended; they pose complex and engaging questions that encourage readers to become more reflective about their teaching. Each scene ends withprovocative discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. The book covers such key topics as writing to learn; designing effective writing assignments; responding to and evaluating student writing; coaching writing; writing and new technologies; apprenticeship and the role of graduatestudents; and program development. Also addressed is the issue of working across disciplines with faculty who may share different views of writing and how it is best taught or learned. A list of Web-based resources is included in an appendix. Ideal for instructors involved in workshops, seminars,and other faculty-development efforts, The WAC Casebook is also an excellent text for graduate students in composition and rhetoric programs or in teacher-education programs.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Reflection, Faculty Development, and Writing Across the Curriculum: The Power of Scene

Writing to Learn: Scenes of Intellectual Growth

The Misbegotten Journal of Dennis Wong

Writing for Empathy

Writing Intensity

WAC Meets WMS: Not Love at First Sight

What's Appropriate?

Effective Assignments: Scenes of the Craft

Great Assignment, but Nobody's Happy

Trudy Does Comics

Who Has the Power?

Pieces Missing: Assignments and Expectations

Managing Disciplinary Difference

In the Writing-Intensive Univers(ity)

Spreading the Words: Collaborative Writing in ""Killer Lab""

Reading Student Work: Scenes of Response and Evaluation

Making Learning Visible: What You Can't See Can Change Response

Two Papers, Two Views

The Jonas Incident

Esmeralda's Math Class

The Finger on the Pulse: Who Teaches Writing?

It's All Academic

Coaching Writing: Scenes of Ideology and Interaction

Rewriting the Culture of Engineering

Who's ""Infantalizing?""

Shobhna's Pronouncements

It's Not Working

Requiring Revision, Juggling the Work Load

""You Have No Right""

Cybertext: Scenes of Writing and New Technologies

Through the Back Door into Cyberspace

Connecting Students with Professionals

Sondra Gets Hyper

Lost in the MOO

Anonymity, Botulism, and Counterfeit Russians

Fences and Neighbors: Scenes of Cross-disciplinary Work and Faculty Collaboration

Whatever Things Are True: A Scenario in Four Acts

Is This Writing?

Showdown at Midwestern U: The First-Year Composition War between English and Economics

Raising the Gates of Chem. 101

The Strange Case of the Vanishing Very Bad Writing

Seeds of Change: Scenes of Apprenticeship and the Role of Graduate Students

The Blind Men and the Elephant Called Writing

Greta's Cacophony

Mistakes in Social Psychology

To Teach or Not to Teach

Ranks, Roles, and Responsibilities: Crossing the Fine Lines in Cross-Disciplinary Mentorship

Tending the Garden: Scenes of Program Development

Been There, Done That: A Problem in WAC Funding

A Chemistry Experiment in Writing

Thoughts from the Rank and File

""We Hate You!"" WAC as a Professional Threat

Forget Everything You Learned About Writing

Learning About Learning Communities

Appendix: Best Online Resources for Writing Across the Curriculum

About the Scenemakers

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