Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular History » (3rd Edition)

David R. Russell is a professor of English at Iowa State University, where he teaches rhetoric and professional communication.  He has published many articles on writing across the curriculum and has coedited Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum, a special issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity, and Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective: Transitions from Secondary to Higher Education. He has given workshops and lectures on writing across the curriculum nationally and internationally, and he was the first Knight Visiting Scholar in Writing at Cornell University.

Russell (English, Iowa State U.) presents the second edition of this text on the history of writing instruction outside general-composition courses in American secondary and higher education, from the 1870s to the present day. The first edition, published in 1991, covered the writing- across-the-curriculum (WAC) movements in the 1980s; the new material in the second edition focuses on WAC in the 1990s. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Russell (English, Iowa State U.) presents the second edition of this text on the history of writing instruction outside general-composition courses in American secondary and higher education, from the 1870s to the present day. The first edition, published in 1991, covered the writing- across-the-curriculum (WAC) movements in the 1980s; the new material in the second edition focuses on WAC in the 1990s. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)