Teaching across the Curriculum: Critical Communication in the Sociology Classroom

Pittendrigh, Adele; Jobes, Patrick C.

doi:10.2307/1318306

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“…In the smartly titled “Kicking and Screaming: How One Truculent Sociology Department Made Peace with Mandatory Assessment,” Clark and Filinson (2011) narrate the obstacles and successes along the way to curricular self-assessment. Pittendrigh and Jobes (1984) describe how they emphasized the importance of writing in the sociology classroom, but their work took a team-teaching approach in which a writing instructor and a sociology instructor worked in tandem within one course at a time.…”

Section: Teaching Writing In the Sociology Classroommentioning

confidence: 99%

A Collective Effort to Improve Sociology Students’ Writing Skills

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Nationwide, academic sociologists at all types of higher education institutions face the challenge of working to improve students’ writing skills. In this article, we describe a collective effort by a group of faculty members in one undergraduate sociology program to implement several effective writing-improvement strategies. We advocate aiming to improve students’ writing by working together on a united front rather than working in isolation. After explaining the origins of the collective emphasis on writing that emerged in our group and briefly outlining the writing-improvement strategies that we utilize, we use student survey data to reflect on major themes before concluding with a discussion of the merits of our collective approach.

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Section: Teaching Writing In the Sociology Classroommentioning

confidence: 99%