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Writing across the curriculum at research universities
Author(s) -
Strenski Ellen
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.37219883607
Subject(s) - curriculum , publication , discipline , higher education , mathematics education , graduate students , medical education , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , political science , medicine , social science , law
Given the strength of departments, the pressures on faculty to conduct and publish research and to train graduate students in their disciplinary specialties, and the enormous numbers of teaching assistants who are responsible for much of the undergraduate instruction, writing instruction at research universities often seems to be “in spite of the curriculum.” Nonetheless, it is possible to run successful WAC programs at such universities.