English to Spanish Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy Writing Across the Curriculum

"The programmatic and pedagogical developments in Writing Across the Curriculum are closely associated with three different approaches to theory and research. The first (examined in this chapter) looks closely at classroom practices and student learning to write within disciplines. This research develops detailed ethnographic investigations of students’ experiences in writing in various disciplines as well as studies
of writing practices in classrooms. This approach has been more closely tied to a concern for the demands of academic writing within university classrooms but includes some studies of K-12 schooling and
schools as sites of disciplinary learning. A related research agenda examines reading-writing relationships, ADDRESSING the fact that much
academic writing is based on materials that students read and then use as a resource or discuss critically. The second, writing to learn (see Chapter 5), grows out of a concern for student-centered engagement
with disciplinary materials and thought to be achieved through writing."