Bridging writing to learn and writing in the discipline in computer science education

Hoffman, Mark E.; Dansdill, Timothy; Herscovici, David S.

doi:10.1145/1124706.1121379

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“…Hoffman, Dansdill, and Herscovi discuss how a WAC model may be used in Computer Science education by incorporating all three kinds of writing into one course [7]. They describe informal assignments that can be turned into "bridge" (or medium stakes) assignments and then developed into formal (high stakes) writing.…”

Section: Wac Practicesmentioning

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Take a WAC at writing in your course

Zilora

Hermsen

2007

Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGITE Conference on Information Technology Education

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We can all agree that writing is an important skill for our students, but who among us wants to be the one to correct and grade those written assignments? And if we do not apply high standards to our students' writing and require frequent exercise, how can we expect them to take writing seriously? One simple answer for those of us in information technology is to turn the problem over to the English department-we can make it their job to teach our students how to write. While this relieves us of the need to correct dangling participial phrases, it burdens our English professors grading a database paper with understanding that some tables are more normal than others while some tables are simply unnormalized.The authors, an IT professor and an English professor, have taken a different approach and embraced the concept of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). This concept calls for the frequent practice of low stakes writing in the disciplines. It is predicated on the belief that just like programming or any other technical skill, writing requires practice. While this approach is not entirely new (WAC first became popular in the 1980s), the authors have devised a support structure to better enable WAC. Specifically, with an English professor serving as a "personal trainer", a technical professor can learn how to provide formative feedback to his students without needing to be an expert grammarian. Our experience is that this process is both easy to implement for the professors and well-received by students. Students reported that they actually enjoyed the additional writing assignments and the associated feedback.

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Section: Wac Practicesmentioning

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Take a WAC at writing in your course

Zilora

Hermsen

2007

Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGITE Conference on Information Technology Education

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“…In addition, online discussions give students the time they need to process learning, write ideas and views, and reflect to increase the quality of learning [7,8]. Moreover, the act of writing (especially reflective writing) and discussion are an essential professional skill [9] within computer science education [10].…”

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Students’ Perceptions and Information-Sharing Patterns in Learning Authoring System Course through Blogging

Kadir

Tasir

2020

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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The use of blogs in teaching and learning has emerged as a useful education-al technology resource. Hence, this study’s objective is to investigate the students’ perception of blogs and the blog usage patterns from the educa-tional aspect. Eighteen samples were chosen purposively in this study. The study collected both qualitative and quantitative data. The research instru-ments were questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and students’ blogs. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, the data collected was an-alysed descriptively and thematically. The results revealed the positive outcomes of students’ perceptions of blog aspects such as writing, reading and making comments. In terms of blog usage patterns, student frequencies in writing and sharing information in blogs were high when they were given tasks or activities that would be evaluated by an instructor. This showed that instructors play an important role in motivating the students to be ac-tively involved in blogs. Therefore, rewards or marks need to be given as an encouragement to the students for them to continuously and actively use blogs for learning.

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“…As the Athenians had to process what we might today call 'multidisciplinary knowledge and skill' in order to survive and thrive in a demanding democracy, so students today must possess the multidisciplinary knowledge and technical skills to succeed in a multimedia age" (p. 64). It is therefore not surprising that innovative curricular developments in the humanities are aligning themselves with developments in digital media [40,68] and that computer science and engineering programs are grounding themselves in communication, social, ethical, and environmental studies [7,33,34,69].…”

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Multidisciplinarity and 21st century communication design

Mehlenbacher

2009

Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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This paper addresses recent calls for the importance of multidisciplinary research and action in communication design. The impetus for multidisciplinary perspectives toward communication design is technological change, rapid developments in work products and processes, and the perception that emerging issues in the workplace demand additional competencies and knowledge. Terminology related to multidisciplinarity, such as disciplinarity, cross-disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity, is defined. Since ACM SIGDOC members are distributed across academic and nonacademic fields and institutions, the focus will be on discipline as epistemology and as language with the goal of explicating common frameworks and terminology for better articulating communication design and work.

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Bridging writing to learn and writing in the discipline in computer science education

Cited by 7 publications

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Take a WAC at writing in your course

Take a WAC at writing in your course

Students’ Perceptions and Information-Sharing Patterns in Learning Authoring System Course through Blogging

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