“Writing to Learn, Learning to Write”
Writing Program Committee Bibliography
Cornell College, 2009
Devan Baty
Writing to Learn
Web sites
http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/pop4a.cfm
This Colorado State website includes a basic definition of “writing to learn.”
Print sources
Beyer, B. “Using Writing to Learn in History.” The History Teacher. 23 (February, 1980): 167-179.
Elbow, Peter. “High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing.” New
Directions for Teaching & Learning. 69 (Spring, 1997): 5.
Elbow, Peter. “Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment.” College
English. 55. 2 (Feb., 1993): 187.
Indrisano, Roselmina & Jeanne R. Paratore, eds. Learning to Write, Writing to Learn: Theory and
Research in Practice. (No. 576-846), 2005.
Kneeshaw, Stephen. “KISSing in the History Classroom: Simple Writing Activities That Work.”
Social Studies. Jul 1992; 83,4. 176.
Moore, Randy. “Writing to Learn Biology.” Journal of College Science Teaching. 23. 5. (Mar/Apr94):
289.
Sorcinelli, Mary Deane and Peter Elbow, eds. “Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and
Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines.” New Directions in Teaching and Learning, No. 69.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Spring 1997.
Stanley, Linda. “Writing-to-Learn Assignments: The Journal and the Microtheme.” New Directions
for Community Colleges.” 19. (March 1991): 1-45.
Zinsser, William. Writing to Learn: How to Write--and Think--Clearly about any Subject at All. New
York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Learning to Write
Aaron, Jane E. The Little, Brown Essential Handbook. 5th Ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006.
Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia F. Muth. The Longman Writer's Companion. 3rd
Ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005.
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Barnet, Sylvan. A short Guide to College Writing. New York: Penguin, 2005.
Bazerman, Charles. The Informed Writer. 5th Ed. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1995.
Behrens, Laurence, Leonard J. Rosen, and Bonnie Beedles. A Sequence for Academic Writing. New
York: Pearson/Longman, 2005.
Bishop, Wendy. Blair Resources for Teaching Writing: Classroom Strategies. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Blair/Prentice, 1994.
Burnham, Christopher C. Blair Resources for Teaching Writing: Journals. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Blair/Prentice, 1994.
Calkins, Lucy McCormick. The Art of Teaching Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994.
Faigley, Lester. The Brief Penguin Handbook. 2nd Ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006.
Ferganchick-Neufang, Julia K., ed. Rhetoric of Academic Writing: A Student's Handbook for
Composition. Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Hacker, Diana. Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age. 3rd Ed. Boston: Bedford/St.
Martin's, 2002.
Harvey, Gordon. Writing with Sources: A Guide for Students. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.
Harvey, Michael. The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003.
Kiniry, Malcolm, and Mike Rose. Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing. Compact 2nd
Ed. Boston: Bedford, 1995.
-----. The Wadsworth Handbook. 7th Ed. Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.
Provost, Gary. Make Your Words Work: Proven Techniques for Effective Writing-For Fiction
and Nonfiction. (originally published 1990 by Writers Digest; republished 2001 by
iUniverse.com, Inc.).
Scharton, Maurice, and Janice Neuleib. Things Your Grammar Never Told You. 2nd. Ed. [Pocket
grammar and usage handbook]. New York: Longman, 2001.
Veit, Richard. Research: The Student's Guide to Writing Research Papers. 4th Ed. New York:
Pearson/Longman, 2004.
Veit, Richard, and Christopher Gould. Writing, Reading, and Research. 6th. Ed. New York:
Pearson/Longman, 2004.
Weston, Anthony. A Rulebook for Arguments. 3rd. Ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000.
Wilhoit, Stephen W. A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997.
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Yagelski, Robert P. and Robert K. Miller. The Informed Argument. 6th. Ed. Boston:
Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003.
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs
Web Sites
University of Central Florida’s Writing Center
http://www.uwc.ucf.edu/Faculty_Resources/facultymainpage.html
This site has some useful handouts geared towards faculty who assign and assess writing.
The Harvard Writing Project (HWP)
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k24101&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup35040
This page includes guidelines for writing intensive courses at Harvard and has handouts to help faculty develop
effective ways of assigning and responding to student writing.
Purdue’s Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/671/01/
Provides an introduction to writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines and a list of links to
WAC/WID programs.
Print Sources
Anson, Scheibert, and Williamson. Writing Across the Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography.
Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1993.
Anson, Chris M., ed. The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Barnett, Robert W. and Jacob S. Blumner. Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Bazerman, Charles, and David R. Russell, eds. Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum.
Anaheim, CA: Hermagoras, 1994.
Bean, John. Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active
Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001.
Bean, John C., Virginia A. Chappell, and Alice M. Gillam. Reading Rhetorically: A Reader for Writers.
2nd Ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005.
Behrens, Laurence, and Leonard J. Rosen. Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 8th Ed. New
York: Longman, 2003.
-----. Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Brief Edition. New York: Longman, 2004.
Britton, James. Language and Learning. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin
Books, 1970.
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Britton, James. “Language and Learning across the Curriculum.” Forum 1
(Winter 1980): 55-56, 93-94.
Britton, James; Tony Burgess; Nancy Martin; Alex McLeod; and Harold Rosen.
The Development of Writing Abilities (11-18), London: Macmillan Education,
1975.
Fulwiler, Toby and Art Young, eds. Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing across the
Curriculum. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1990.
Hillocks, George Jr. Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.
Hult, Christine A. Researching and Writing Across the Curriculum. 2nd. Ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth,
1990.
La Guardia, Dolores and Hans P. Guth. Issues Across the Curriculum: Reading, Writing, Research.
London: Mayfield,1997.
LeCourt, Donna. "WAC as Critical Pedagogy: The Third Stage?" JAC: Journal of Composition Theory
16.3 (1996): 389-405.
Mahala, Daniel. "Writing Utopias: Writing Across the Curriculum and the Promise of Reform." College
English 53.7 (Nov. 1991): 773-89.
McLeod, Susan H. Strengthening Programs for Writing Across the Curriculum. San Francisco: JosseyBass, 1988.
--- and Margot Iris Soven, Eds. Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum.
West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2006.
McLeod, Susan H., Eric Miraglia, Margot Soven, and Christopher Thaiss. WAC for the New
Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-Across-theCurriculum Programs. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2001.
Miraglia, Eric and Susan H. McLeod. "Whither WAC? Interpreting the Stories/Histories of Enduring
WAC Programs." WPA: The Writing Program Administrator. 20.3 (1997): 46-64.
Moffett, James. Teaching the Universe of Discourse. New York: Houghton
Mifflin, 1968.
Simon, Linda. A Guide and Sourcebook for Writing Across the Curriculum. New York: St. Martin's,
1988.
Townsend, Martha A. "Writing Across the Curriculum." The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing
Program Administrators. Eds. Irene Ward and William J. Carpenter. New York: Longman, 2002, 264274.
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Walvoord, Barbara E., et al. In the Long Run: A Study of Faculty in Three Writing-Across-the-Curriculum
Programs. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1997.
Yancey, Kathleen Blake and Brian A. Huot, eds. Assessing Writing across the Curriculum: Diverse
Approaches and Practices. Greenwich, CT: Ablex Publishing Company, 1997.
Young, Art. "Writing Across and Against the Curriculum." CCC 54.3 (February 2003): 472-485.
Young, Art. Blair Resources for Teaching Writing: Writing Across the Curriculum. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Blair/Prentice, 1994.
Writing in the Disciplines
Web Sites
The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee: http://www.uwm.edu/letsci/edison/wn.html
UWM provides an annotated bibliography of writing across the disciplines: Africology, anthropology, art history,
biological sciences, chemistry, communications, economics, foreign languages, general science, geosciences,
history, mass communications, mathematical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology and sociology.
The Writing Center at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/faculty_resources/index1.html
This website provides excellent handouts for faculty who teach writing, including a breakdown of specific sites
geared towards writing in different disciplines.
Discipline-Specific Writing Resources Newsletter
http://writing.richmond.edu/resources/newsletter.html
George Mason University Writing Center Newsletter with
Discipline-Specific Writing Resources
http://wac.gmu.edu/program/Newsletter/newsletter.html
Georgia State University's Discipline-Specific WAC Bibliographies
http://WWW.GSU.EDU/~wwwwac/
Across the Disciplines: Online Journal for Writing Across the Curriculum. Ed. Michael Pemberton.
http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/
Print Sources
Brown, Stuart C. Brown, Robert K. Mittan, and Duane H. Roen. Becoming Expert: Writing and Learning
in the Disciplines. Dubuque, IA: 1990.
Berkenkotter, Carol, and Thomas N. Huckin. Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995.
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Bullock, Richard. The St. Martin's Manual for Writing in the Disciplines: A Guide for Faculty. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's, 1994.
Comley, Nancy R. et al. Fields of Writing: Readings Across the Disciplines. Second Edition. New
York: St. Martin's, 1987.
Fulwiler and Arthur W. Biddle, eds. A Community of Voices: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines.
New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Hedengren, Beth Finch. A TA's Guide to Teaching Writing in All Disciplines. Boston: Bedford/St.
Martin's, 2004.
Herrington, Anne and Charles Moran, eds. Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. New
York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1992.
Howard, Rebecca Moore, and Sandra Jamieson. The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the
Disciplines. Boston: Bedford of St. Martin's, 1995.
Hult, Christine A. Hult. Readings from the Disciplines: Research Models for Writers. Boston: Allyn and
Bacon, 1997.
Jones, Robert, Patrick Bizzaro, and Cynthia Selfe. The Harcourt Brace Guide to Writing in the
Disciplines. Ft. Worth: Harcourt, 1997.
Kennedy, Mary Lynch, William J. Kennedy, and Hadley M. Smith, eds. Writing in the Disciplines: A
Reader for Writers. Third Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. A Guide to Documentation and Writing in the Disciplines.
5th Ed. Boston: Thomson//Heinle, 2002.
Lester, James D., and James D. Lester, Jr. The Essential Guide: Research Writing Across the
Disciplines. 2nd Ed. New York: Longman, 2002.
Monroe, Jonathon, ed. Writing and Revising the Disciplines. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Russell, David. Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular History. 2nd ed. Carbondale, IL:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
Tinberg, Howard. Writing with Consequence: What Writing Does in the Disciplines. New York:
Longman, 2003.
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