Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum

by Charles Bazerman, Joseph Little

Overview

This reference guide traces the writing across the curriculum movement from its origins in British secondary education through its flourishing in American higher education and extension to American primary and secondary education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602353176
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	07/04/2005
Series:	Reference Guides to Writing Across the Curriculum
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	188
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Charles Bazerman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, His most recent books are Writing Selves and Societies (co-edited with David Russell; http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/ ) and What Writing Does and How It Does It (co-edited with Paul Prior). His The Languages of Edison’s Light, won the Association of American Publisher’s award for the best scholarly book of 1999 in the History of Science and Technology. Joseph Little is a writer and teacher of writing who lives and works in Toronto, having earned his PhD at UCSB in Language, Literacy, and Composition Studies. His work has been published in Written Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. Lisa Bethel teaches writing in the Los Angeles area. Teri Chavkin is a doctoral student in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UCSB, specializing in the teaching of writing and researching the writing processes of students with high functioning autism. Danielle Fouquette is Instructor of English at Fullerton College, where she teaches writing and researches the assumptions and perspectives of teacher commentary on student writing. Janet Garufis is adding graduate studies in writing to a successful career in the banking industry. Her interests include business writing, writing and identity, and social justice.