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Reflecting on the Past, Reconstructing the Future: Faculty Members’ Threshold Concepts for Teaching Writing in the Disciplines
(2020-12-08)
A growing body of scholarship in writing studies has started exploring threshold concepts for writing, providing a synoptic view of the transformations students undergo as they learn about writing. However, the field has ...
Repurposing scientific writing in conservation biology
(2020-05-14)
Scientists and writing studies scholars agree that students need to be able to repurpose scientific knowledge across audiences, goals, and genres. This article offers a much-needed, practical example of an assignment that ...
Trouble and transformation in higher education: Identifying threshold concepts through faculty narratives about teaching writing
(2020-12-08)
The theory of threshold concepts has given faculty a powerful way to name foundational, but difficult, disciplinary concepts. However, there is no methodological consensus about the best ways to identify them. In this ...
Using Published Student Writing to Enrich Pedagogy
(2019-10-25)
An undergraduate course which required a long paper analyzing a Supreme Court opinion structured that writing assignment as a series of smaller writing tasks in order to teach students how to do rhetorical analysis and ...
Writing for Publication: Faculty Development Initiative Using Social Learning Theory
(2019-11-05)
Demonstrating scholarly competency is an expectation for nurse faculty. However, there is hesitancy among some faculty to fully engage in scholarly activities. To strengthen a school of nursing’s culture of scholarship, a ...