Across the Disciplines

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January 2025

  1. A Review of Pedagogical Perspectives on Cognition and Writing
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2025.22.1-2.06
  2. A Review of Essentials of Autoethnography
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2025.22.1-2.07

January 2023

  1. Review of The Writing Studio Sampler: Stories about Change
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2023.20.1-2.05

January 2022

  1. Introduction to Volume 18, Issue 3/4
    Abstract

    This double issue of Across the Disciplines features seven articles, as well as a book review. I am confident that individuals interested in research on WAC faculty development, writing in STEM, threshold concepts of writing, and writing transfer will find much of value. Two articles take up the central WAC matter of faculty development: Elisabeth Miller et al. ( Three contributions engage

    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2022.18.3-4.01
  2. A Review of Transient Literacies in Action: Composing with the Mobile Surround
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2022.19.3-4.10
  3. A Review of Literacy as Conversation: Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2022.19.3-4.09
  4. Review of Changing the Subject: A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2022.19.3-4.07
  5. Review of Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 4
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2022.19.3-4.08
  6. A Review of Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document that Changes Everything
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2022.18.3-4.09

January 2020

  1. A Review of Institutional Ethnography: A Theory of Practice for Writing Studies Researchers, by Michelle LaFrance. (2019). University Press of Colorado. 146 pages. [ISBN 978-1-60732-866-7]
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2020.17.3.05
  2. A Review of Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity, edited by Mya Poe, Asao B. Inoue, and Norbert Elliot. (2018). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. 438 pages. [ISBN 978-1-64215-015-5]
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2020.17.3.04

January 2019

  1. A Review of Sustainable WAC: A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2019.16.2.10
  2. A Review of Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation
    Abstract

    This article is Dr. Martin’s review of Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation. Routledge. 978-1620365687. Contact the publisher for pricing.

    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2019.16.2.11
  3. A Review of Sojourning in Disciplinary Cultures: A Case Study of Teaching Writing in Engineering
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2019.16.4.23
  4. A Review of Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2019.16.04.21
  5. A Review of Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2019.16.4.21
  6. A Review of Two Edited Collections on Student Writing Transfer: Critical Transitions and Understanding Writing Transfer
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2019.16.04.22
  7. A Review of Two Edited Collections on Student Writing Transfer: Critical Transitions and Understanding Writing Transfer
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2019.16.4.22

January 2018

  1. A Review of Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2018.15.4.04
  2. A Review of Faculty Development and Student Learning: Assessing the Connections
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2018.15.2.03
  3. A Review of Expanding Literate Landscapes: Persons, Practices, and Sociohistoric Perspectives of Disciplinary Development
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2018.15.4.03

January 2017

  1. A Review of The Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers
    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

    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2017.14.2.04
  2. A Review of Composition in the Age of Austerity
    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

    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2017.14.2.06
  3. A Review of Ecologies of Writing Programs: Program Profiles in Context
    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

    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2017.14.1.03
  4. A Review of Microhistories of Composition
    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

    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2017.14.1.02
  5. A Review of Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition's Institutional Fortune
    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

    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2017.14.2.05

January 2016

  1. A Review of the MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition (2016)
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2016.13.2.03
  2. A Review of 'Reconnecting Reading and Writing'
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2016.13.1.04
  3. A Review of 'The MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2016.13.2.07

January 2015

  1. A Review of 'WAC and Second Language Writers: Research Towards Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2015.12.2.03

January 2010

  1. Review of Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering: Case Studies from MIT
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2010.7.1.05

January 2004

  1. The Ongoing Legacy of Wendy Bishop Is In Our Stories: a Review of The Subject is Story: Essays for Writers and Readers, Edited by Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom
    doi:10.37514/atd-j.2004.1.01.11