Writing in The Disciplines Program
The Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) Program at SHSU is part of a long-running international movement of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) that helps faculty integrate professional writing practices from their field into their academic courses. WID is about engaging students to use writing as a tool to learn disciplinary content. Students need practice before becoming better writers and thinkers, and as studies have shown, professional writing is best taught in the disciplines.
Writing assignments created through the WID lens meet the goals above. The WID program helps faculty develop writing activities so that students gain faimiliarity and fluency with specific genres and formats. For example, an engineer does not write like a botanist, who does not write like a chemist, who does not write like a sociologist. Each field has its own ways of creating knowledge and students learn best when they are partners in the writing activities of their chosen fields.
For more information, check out the WAC Clearinghouse Repository to learn more about the WAC movement and to find teaching resources curated from leaders in the field of writing studies.
“I receive emails from former students all the time thanking me for introducing them to a new level of learning through the writing I implement in my course.”
– Professor, College of Business Administration
“Never in a million years would I have thought as a major in Business Administration that I would have developed better writing skills to help me in the future.”
– P.H., 2020 SHSU Graduate
“The WID program significantly enhanced my writing during undergrad.”
– C.G., 2019 SHSU Graduate