Key Features of an Interdisciplinary Approach to College Writing

The writing-across-the-curriculum movement has had great impact upon the design of university writing curricula. Due to its influence, universities address writing principles in both the freshman writing survey and in various content courses in which writing plays a central role. The following essay argues that writing instruction in the freshman survey and field-specific courses, such as history, biology, literature, etc. ought to share a common methodology-- a set of assumptions and general strategies for training students to write as academics.The essay both names and defines the key features of such a methodology