Revising a Scientific Writing Curriculum: Wayfinding Successful Collaborations with Interdisciplinary Expertise.
Interdisciplinary collaborations to help students compose for discipline-specific contexts draw on multiple expertise. Science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM) programs particularly rely on their writing colleagues because 1) their academic expertise is often not writing and 2) teachin...
| Publicado en: | College Composition & Communication Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 333 - 369 |
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National Council of Teachers of English
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