The idea of a writing laboratory
By: Neal Lerner.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780809329144
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching; Report writing -- Study and teaching; Writing centers; Tutors and tutoring; Technical writing -- Study and teaching; Interdisciplinary approach in education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The secret origins of writing centers; title: Writing in the science laboratory: opportunities lost; title: The writing of school science; title: The two poles of writing lab history: the cases of Minnesota and Dartmouth; title: Project English and the quest for federal funding; title: Drawing to learn science: lessons of Agassiz; title: The laboratory in theory: from mental discipline to situated learning; title: The laboratory in practice: a study of a biological engineering class.