Writing Intensive Curriculum Program

Teaching writing in any discipline

Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. Second edition, Jossey-Bass, 2011.

• Available as an ebook via the OSU library

Gottschalk, Katherine K., and Keith Hjortshoj. The Elements of Teaching Writing: A Resource for Instructors in All Disciplines. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.

• Available in hard copy via the OSU-Cascades library 

Thaiss, Christopher J. The Harcourt Brace Guide to Writing across the Curriculum. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998.

Thaiss, Christopher J., and Terry Myers Zawacki. Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life. Heinemann, 2006.

• Available as an ebook via the WAC Clearinghouse

Teaching writing in specific areas

Writing guides to share with students

Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed., W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.

• Available as an ebook via the OSU library

Swales, John M., and Christine B. Feak. English in Today’s Research World: A Writing Guide. University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Sections of this book have since been updated and published as shorter, separate volumes:

• Feak, Christine B., and John M. Swales. Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review. University of Michigan Press, 2009.

• Feak, Christine B., and John M. Swales. Creating Contexts: Writing Introductions across Genres. University of Michigan Press, 2011.

• Swales, John M., and Christine B. Feak. Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts. University of Michigan Press, 2009.

• Swales, John M., and Christine B. Feak. Navigating Academia: Writing Supporting Genres. University of Michigan Press, 2011.