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Writing Across the Curriculum Encounters Asynchronous Learning Networks or WAC Meets Up With ALN

by Sloan-C

Author Information

Author(s):

Gail E. Hawisher, Department of English

Author(s):

Michael A. Pemberton, Department of English

Institution(s) or Organization(s) Where Research Occured:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Volume and Issue Information

Volume:

1

Issue:

1

Month:

March

Year:

1997

This paper illustrates some of the problems and successes that the authors encountered while integrating ALN into a writing across the curriculum program and an online writing lab at a large research university. Using transcripts from ALN class discussions, the authors examine students’ networked interactions and analyze the classes’ responses to a variety of online assignments in a class on English composition and pedagogy, a course on electrical and computing engineering, and a class on writing technologies. In so doing, the authors set forth several pedagogical principles which emerged from their experiences with ALN in their individual classes and which also share a number of commonalties with effective WAC practices.

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