Writing across the curriculum: Why bother?

Rhetoric Society Quarterly Sep 1991

Writing across the curriculum: Why bother?

William E. Coles University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

In an Afterword to their book Writing Across Discipline: Research into Practice, Art Young and Toby Fulwiler speak of the enemies of writing across curriculum (287) ... most significant of which, they suggest, may be collectively, a set of entrenched attitudes ... shared to some extent by faculty, administrators, students, and general public (292-3). The attitudes described are in many ways predictable, running from seeing of any organized attempt to change teaching strategy as an attack on academic freedom, all way down to such assertions as:

Journal: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published: 1991-09-01
DOI: 10.1080/02773949109390930
Open Access: Closed
Topics: writing across the curriculum

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