Writing Across the Curriculum: The Power of An Idea
2006 Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, 5/18/2006
The following exerpts are taken from the Keynote Address by Anne J. Herrington and Charles Moran. Click here to read the entire address.
"Technology has been used in a way that we deem responsible."
"The feedback given by the program is on its content, not its mechanics—a good WAC [Writing Across the Curriculum] practice for a first draft. The student can revise the paper given the feedback and re-submit."
"[T]he program has been locally-developed and administered; it arises from the context of a particular course; it presents the students with a highly-structured and constrained writing task; its feedback is on content, not grammar and style; the program encourages dialogue with the instructors around the feedback it gives; and students’ writing is read by machine only in its early stages, and by the course teachers thereafter."