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How Writing Contributes to Learning: New Findings from a National Study and Their Local Application
(2019-10-31)
Anderson, P., Anson, C. M., Fish, T., Gonyea, R. M., Marshall, M., Menefee-Libey, W., Paine, C., Blake, L. P., Weaver, S. (2017). How writing contributes to learning: New findings from a national study and their local ...
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 ...
Lessons from the Field: Moving from Data to Action
(2019-10-31)
From its launch more than a decade ago, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) was more than just a new survey. NSSE represented a campaign to focus the attention of higher education leaders, faculty, staff, ...
Organizational Response to a University Writing Initiative: Writing in the Disciplines (WID) in an Interdisciplinary Department
(2019-10-30)
The authors use an institutional theory framework to examine the impact of a newly adopted university-wide Writing in the Disciplines (WID) initiative in courses offered by three
undergraduate programs housed in an ...
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 ...
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 ...