Writing Steam: Composition, Stem, and a New Humanities

ISBN-13: 9780367630386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 236 str.

Kao, Vivian

Opis

This edited collection positions writing at the center of interdisciplinary higher education, and explores how writing instruction, writing scholarship, and writing program administration bring STEM and the humanities together in meaningful, creative, and beneficial ways.

Spis treści

Introduction Section I. Teaching Chapter 1. Gaining STEAM: The Integral Role of Composition in an Increasingly STEM World Chapter 2. Building Socioscientific Trust is a Post-Secondary Obligation: Preparing STEM Students to Communicate and Engage with Public Audiences Chapter 3. STEAM Storytime: Fusing Artistic Expression with Scientific Discourse through Picture Books Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary Collaboration for a New Humanities and a New Engineer Section II. Research and Scholarship Chapter 5. STEAMing Up Composition: Inquiry-Based Learning and the Non-Traditional Student Chapter 6. Knowledge in the Making: How STEAM can Transform Notions of Expertise Chapter 7. Toward a Mindful Application of Gamification Chapter 8. Familiar Technologies and Learning Principles to Attract and Retain STEM Student Interest in First-Year Writing Chapter 9. Creative Writing Across the Curriculum: Defining and Illustrating a Method for STEM/Humanities Integration Section III. Writing Program Administration Chapter 10. "Some of the rooms are occupied by squirrels": Communication and the New Polytechnic Chapter 11. All Aboard: Gaining STEAM in Health Sciences Education Chapter 12. "To Feel, With Amazement, Their Minds": Science, Humanism, Inquiry, and the Rhetorical Work of Wonder Chapter 13. Local Exigencies in a World of Expectations: STEM Writing Programs and the Great Balancing Act