Engineering Sentences at a Writing Center: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration (College Composition and Communication Regional Conference)
D'Arcy Randall gave a virtual presentation about the pilot program developed as part of her PTF Initiative at the College Composition and Communication Regional Conference at the University of Southern California on Dec. 19, 2020. The 2020 Theme of the conference was "Building Diverse Communities Through Writing." The presentation was part of a Teaching Forum session titled "Writing from Other Places and Spaces," which was one of over 50 sessions of varied topics, formats, and scholarly approaches.
Read more about the 2020 conference proceedings here.
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Engineering Sentences: A Cross-Disciplinary Training Program
Although Cockrell School of Engineering (CSE) undergraduates take a required engineering writing class, which I teach for Chemical Engineering, they typically struggle with writing laboratory and long-form research reports. Helping CSE students to overcome this obstacle matters because writing technical reports prepares engineering students for the writing-intensive work of a professional engineer. Faculty teaching these classes would also benefit from higher quality student work.