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Introducing writing across the curriculum into China: Feasability and adaptation.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Introducing writing across the curriculum into China: Feasability and adaptation./
Author:	Wu, Dan.
Description:	254 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-10A.
Subject:	Speech Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3419309
ISBN:	9781124191089

Introducing writing across the curriculum into China: Feasability and adaptation.
Wu, Dan.

Introducing writing across the curriculum into China: Feasability and adaptation. - 254 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Clemson University, 2010.

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is a successful educational movement initiated in the US in the 1970s to promote better teaching and learning. It has developed to incorporate writing, speaking, digital educational technologies, and other communication modalities in the past several decades. WAC initiatives have now been successfully transplanted outside of the U.S. in nations and areas such as Australia, Sweden, Germany, and Hong Kong, yet one country that has not endorsed a WAC approach is China. Given the current tension between access and quality for Chinese higher education after an unprecedented enrollment expansion, incorporating WAC approaches is currently a debated option for easing this tension.

ISBN: 9781124191089Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017408
Speech Communication.

Introducing writing across the curriculum into China: Feasability and adaptation.
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