TY - CHAP
T1 - Experiences with Writing Assignments in Upper-Division Computer Science Courses
AU - Sorenson, Jonathan P
N1 - DOI link for Teaching in the 21st Century Teaching in the 21st Century book Adapting Writing Pedagogies to the College Curriculum DOI link for Teaching in the 21st Century Teaching in the 21st Century book Adapting Writing Pedagogies to the College Curriculum By Alice Robertson, Barbara Smith, Alice W.
PY - 1999/10/1
Y1 - 1999/10/1
N2 - When I arrived at Butler University in the Fall of 1991, I discovered the writing-across-the-curriculum program (WAC), directed by Dr. Carol Reeves. At Butler, all students must take a writing-intensive course during their junior or senior year. Preferably that course should be in the student’s major. At Butler, WAC’s primary duty is to approve courses as writing-intensive and to train faculty to competently offer such courses. As an eager new faculty member, I dutifully signed up for the training, despite my fears about using writing in computer science courses. I had never taught a course that involved writing, and I did not know how to grade writing assignments. I was not certain that writing could or should be used in upper-division computer science courses as it is in upper-division humanities courses. Perhaps fellow computer scientists feel the same way.
AB - When I arrived at Butler University in the Fall of 1991, I discovered the writing-across-the-curriculum program (WAC), directed by Dr. Carol Reeves. At Butler, all students must take a writing-intensive course during their junior or senior year. Preferably that course should be in the student’s major. At Butler, WAC’s primary duty is to approve courses as writing-intensive and to train faculty to competently offer such courses. As an eager new faculty member, I dutifully signed up for the training, despite my fears about using writing in computer science courses. I had never taught a course that involved writing, and I did not know how to grade writing assignments. I was not certain that writing could or should be used in upper-division computer science courses as it is in upper-division humanities courses. Perhaps fellow computer scientists feel the same way.
UR - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203905029
U2 - 10.4324/9780203905029
DO - 10.4324/9780203905029
M3 - Chapter
BT - Teaching in the 21st Century: Adapting Writing Pedagogies to the College Curriculum
ER -