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Learning Across the Curriculum
Welcome to the Writing and Learning Across the Curriculum Information
Resource Center. Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is an academic
movement emphasizing the importance of communication in the professional
world and promoting writing as a learning tool in all fields of study.
The list below provides a short description of each handout; you can
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Annotated Bibliography:
This packet details the steps necessary to produce an annotated bibliography
that may be required for work in
various disciplines. It includes a definition, explanation, and guidelines
for creating an annotated bibliography that has a focus and is useful
to its audience.
Book Review:
This packet details the steps necessary to produce a book review that
may be required for work in various disciplines, including psychology
and education. It includes information on the process of writing a
book review, how to format one, and how to conclude.
Case Analysis:
This packet details the steps necessary to produce a case analysis
that may be required for work in business and technology
courses. It includes descriptions and guidelines for writing and organizing
an effective case analysis.
A Checklist
for Scientific Writing: This handout provides a checklist for
scientific writing; it covers items such as abbreviations, numbers,
and scientific terms.
Convert Raw Scores to Cumulative
Percentages: This handout provides a discussion and examples
of the process of converting a raw score into a meaningful
number based on rank within the set.
Essay Exams:
This handout provides some guidelines for taking essay exams, including
information about what you should do before the exam and during the
exam. The handout also provides a list of key words often used in essay
prompts and some resources.
Lab Report:
This packet details the steps necessary to produce a lab report that
may be required for work in various disciplines, including biology,
psychology and computer science. It provides information on development
and format and gives suggestions about ways to present data.
Literature Review:
This packet details the steps necessary to produce a literature review
that may be required for work in various disciplines, including
English, history and psychology. Literature reviews may be either
stand-alone documents or parts of longer documents and are often good
ways to begin a research paper.
Persuasive/Argument
Papers: This packet provides information about drafting
persuasive/argument papers. It also includes prewriting
strategies, key words, and a checklist.
Proof by Mathematical Induction:
This handout contains an explanation of the concept of "proof by
induction."
Response Paper:
This packet details the steps necessary to produce a response paper
that may be required for work in various disciplines, including literature,
history and the humanities. It provides suggestions about preparing
a response paper and discusses a typical format.
SQ-4R: SQ-4R is a successful method of
remembering, retrieving, and thoroughly learning material for a
quiz, test, or for simply understanding a body of information.
Learning this specific method will get you into the habit of
practicing intense and effective studying.
Variance and Standard Deviation:
This handout explains the concepts of variance and standard
deviation, essential to an understanding of statistics. It also
provides steps in the process of determining both variance and
standard deviation.
Visual
Aids: This series of handouts contains introductory
information about choosing visual aids as well as more advanced
information about charts, graphs, illustrations and photographs,
and tables. These handouts were written with the
"printed" or "hard copy" document in mind,
although much of the information will apply to online documents.
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