This section present a bibliography of useful texts in the field that was compiled by Richard Jewell, and instructor in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. This bibliography is expansive, and although it can appear a bit overwhelming at first, the resources here are very useful.

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Richard Jewell's Webpage (CollegeInfo.com) for Writing in All Fields.

A Bibliography for Writing in the Disciplines (WID)
and  Writing Across the Curriculum  (WAC) 

(Richard Jewell, Inver Hill College; February 2004)

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1. This annotated bibliography is primarily for instructors in many fields who wish to teach writing in their courses. 
2. The first section offers several categories of student textbooks, handbooks, and readers for a variety of disciplines. 
3. The second section offers a list of highly recommended instructor resources. 
4. The third section provides several URLs of helpful WAC, WID, and writing-intensive Web sites. 

Student Textbooks for Writing in the Disciplines

General Handbooks and Readers

General WID Handbook: Harris, Muriel. The Writer’s FAQs. A Pocket Handbook. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004. 261 pp. Ppr.  A very useful, spiral-bound grammar and style handbook for writing instruction and research in all disciplines; includes index and quick-access questions pages, MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE (science) documentation styles

General WID Reader: Journet, Debra and Julie Lepick Kling. Readings for Technical Writers. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1984. 227 pp. Ppr.  A very useful set of thirty-five professional examples of business, engineering, health, science, and technical papers of many kinds

General WID Research Handbook: Tensen, Bonnie L. Research Strategies for a Digital Age. Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. This timely guide combines traditional research-writing advice with numerous strategies for finding, evaluating, using, and documenting on-line source material.

Handbook/Guide Series

While the handbooks focus on the mechanics of writing in particular disciplines (e.g., essay structure, sentence construction, punctuation, documentation), the guides typically cover a broader range of writing issues including understanding issues/concepts, approaching typical assignments, and undertaking research projects in respective fields.  Both handbooks and guides tend to be small (200-300 pages), useful, and student friendly.

Addison-Wesley Company

Short Guide Series:
A Short Guide to Writing about Art    Sylvan Barnet
A Short Guide to Writing about Biology     Jan Pechenik
A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry    Herbert Beal & John Trimbur
A Short Guide to Writing about Film     Timothy Corrigan
A Short Guide to Writing about History    Richard Marius
A Short Guide to Writing about Literature    Sylvan Barnet
A Short Guide to Writing about Music  Bellman
A Short Guide to Writing about Psychology    Dana Dunn
A Short Guide to Writing about Science    David Porush
A Short Guide to Writing about Social Science    Lee J. Cuba

Allyn and Bacon Publishing:

How to Write Psychology Papers   Les Parrott III
Researching and Writing in the Humanities   Christine Hult
Researching and Writing in the Sciences and Technology   Christine Hult
Researching and Writing in the Social Sciences   Christine Hult
Writing for Law Enforcement    Christopher Thaiss & John Hess
Writing for Psychology     Christopher Thaiss & James Sanford
Writing about Theatre   Christopher Thaiss & Rick Davis
 
 Bedford/St. Martins Publishing

A Pocket Guide to Writing in History    Mary Lynn Rampolla
A Short Guide to Writing in the Sciences   Ann Penrose & Steven Katz
 
Houghton Mifflin (D.C. Heath) Publishing:

Writers Guide: History    Stiffens, Dickerson, Fulwiler, & Biddle
Writers Guide: Life Sciences    Biddle & Bean (D.C. Heath, 1987; may be out of print)
Writers Guide: Political Science    Biddle, Holland, & Fulwiler
Writers Guide: Psychology   Bond & Magistrale (D.C. Heath, 1987; may be out of print)

Prentice-Hall Publishing:

The History Student Writers Manual     Mark Hellstern et al.
The Political Science Student Writers Manual    Gregory Scott & Stephen Garrison
The Sociology Student Writers Manual    William Johnson et al.
Thinking and Writing About Art History    Donna K. Reid
Writing about Art    Henry Sayre
Writing about the Humanities     Robert DiYanni
Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences    Sharon Friedman

Thomson/Wadworth Pocket Handbook Series:

The Pocket Handbook for Biology. Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell
The Pocket Handbook for History.                      Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell
The Pocket Handbook for Psychology.  Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell  

Textbooks in Specific Disciplines

Most of the books in this section are full textbooks appropriate to courses in which a variety of writing assignments, often formal, are required. 

Health Sciences

Huth, Edward J. How to Write and Publish Papers in the Medical Sciences. Baltimore: William & Wilkins, 1990. 252 pp. Hrdb.  A very practical guide for majors and graduate students to developing several types of medical sciences papers for journals

Polit, Denise F., Cheryl T. Beck, and Bernadette P. Hungler. Essentials of Nursing Research. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 422 pp. Ppr.  A thorough, accessible, and highly practical manual that subsumes writing to the overall process of developing a research project

Political Science

Scott, Gregory M. and Stephen M. Garrison.  The Political Science Student Writer’s Manual. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. 337 pp. Ppr.  A good introduction for undergraduate majors to ten types of political science writing, research, documentation, typing, and style

Professional and Business Writing

Brereton, John C. and Margaret A. Mansfield. Writing on the Job. A Norton Pocket Guide. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. 217 pp. Ppr.  A very useful, spiral-bound grammar and style handbook for all post-secondary students and working professionals for writing letters, memos, news articles, releases, flyers, proposals, minutes, et al., with grammar and style guidelines

Dugger, Jim. Business Letters for Busy People. Hawthorne, NJ: Career, 1993. 210 pp. Ppr.  A practical, easily accessible book for all post-secondary levels of students and professionals with a wide variety of short lessons, formats, and examples

Pearsall, Thomas E. and Donald H. Cunningham. How to Write for the World of Work. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994. 559 pp. Ppr.  A general and very accessible undergraduate introduction to general business and professional writing methods with a variety of examples and of basic and advanced forms

Sciences

Day, Robert A. How to Write & Publish a Scientific Paper. Phoenix: Oryx, 1998. 275 pp. Ppr.  A very practical guide for graduate students and undergraduate majors to developing an IMRaD research paper

Montgomery, Scott L. The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Helps science students at all levels to think and write as a member of the scientific community. Encourages a wide variety of scientific communication tasks: e.g., grant proposals, reports, review articles, speeches, interviews, and e-mail. With many sample texts

Penrose, Ann M. and Steven B. Katz. Writing in the Sciences. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998. 321 pp. Ppr. A good introduction for undergraduate majors to the methodologies and varieties of science writing, with a number of examples

Social Sciences

Friedman, Sharon and Stephen Steinberg. Writing & Thinking in the Social Sciences. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989. 192 pp. Ppr.  A very accessible book for students in social sciences majors with a variety of disciplinary forms of writing

Technical Writing (for Engineers, Technology Writers, et al.)

Riordan, Daniel G. and Steven E. Pauley. Technical Report Writing Today. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 576 pp. Ppr.  A thorough and accessible introduction for technical-writing courses or majors, one that covers audience, groups, style, and a variety of technical documents.

WAC General Pedagogical Resources

Many of the books in this section are suitable as introductions to WAC, while several are a little more advanced or specialized. Many are typically available in college and university library systems. Two national experts and one Minnesota state expert on WAC—Chris Anson, Toby Fulwiler, and Phil Keith—assisted in developing this section. Anson is co-director of the campus-wide writing-and-speaking program at North Carolina State University and considered one of the top national experts in the field. Fulwiler, Professor of English at the University of Vermont, once was called "Mr. WAC" by writing expert Peter Elbow at a joint national presentation in recognition of the major role Fulwiler played in helping spread the WAC movement. He is perhaps the best known expert in the field. Keith is Professor of English and former Director of Composition at St. Cloud State University, where he was one of the first teachers in Minnesota to receive training in WAC and develop WAC training programs for his own campus faculty. 

Highly Recommended Starter Readings

Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. 304 pp.  "A good, basic intro to the principles of WAC" —Chris Anson 

Fulwiler, Toby. The Journal Book. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1987. 402 pp.  "Toby's books on journal writing are really important to help faculty think more strongly about the relationship between writing and learning." —Chris Anson 

Fulwiler, Toby and Art Young, eds. Language Connections: Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1982. 192 pp.  "There are some earlier books that are still pretty relevant (Toby [Fulwiler] and Art Young's, e.g.)." —Chris Anson.  (Also recommended by Phil Keith; out of print)

Fulwiler, Toby and Art Young, eds. When Writing Teachers Teach Literature: Bringing Writing to Reading. Co-ed. Art Young. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1996. 338 pp. 

Fulwiler, Toby and Susan Gardner, eds. The Journal Book for Teachers of Technical and Professional Programs. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1999. 184 pp. "Toby's books on journal writing are really important to help faculty think more strongly about the relationship between writing and learning." —Chris Anson 

Perl, Sondra, ed. Writing Process. Landmark Essays. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1994.  "Contains the real grounding material for such programs" —Toby Fulwiler

Sorcinelli, Mary Deane and Peter Elbow, eds. Writing to Learn: Strategies for “Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines. New Directions for Teaching and Learning 69. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.  (Recommended by Chris Anson & Toby Fulwiler)

Stock, Patricia, ed. Forum: Essays on Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1983.  (Phil Keith) 

Walvoord, Barbara, et al. In the Long Run: A Study of Faculty in Three Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs. NCTE, 1997.  (Chris Anson & Toby Fulwiler; out of print)

Walvoord, Barbara. Helping Students Write Well. MLA, 1986.

Other Good Starter Books and Articles about WAC by Toby Fulwiler

Fulwiler, Toby. "Evaluating Writing across the Curriculum Programs." Strengthening Programs for Writing Across the Curriculum. Ed. S. Mcleod, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988. 61-75.

Fulwiler, Toby. Teaching with Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1987. 158 pp.  (A process-writing manual for non-English instructors)

Fulwiler, Toby. "Writing: An Act of Cognition." Teaching Writing in All Disciplines. New Directions for Teaching and Learning 12. Ed. C.W. Griffin. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982. 15-25.

Fulwiler, Toby and Arthur W. Biddle, eds. Community of Voices: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines. New York: Macmillan, 1992. 974 pp. (A WAC textbook)

Good Starter Books for WAC Coordinators

Anson, Chris, ed. The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development.  Oxford UP. "Designed for workshops and brown bag meetings, but could also be read solo for purposes of reflection" —Chris Anson.  (Contains bibliography of URL and non-URL sources) (Chapters for non-Composition disciplines: Mechanical Engineering, 12; Mathematics, 16; Economics, 32; Chemistry, 33; and Social Psychology, 37.)

Bazerman, Charles and David R. Russell, eds. Writing Across the Curriculum. Landmark Essays. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1994.  242 pp.  (Chapter 1 contains a history of WAC.)

Fulwiler, Toby and Art Young, eds. Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing across the Curriculum. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann 1990. 327 pp. 

Fulwiler, Toby and Art Young, eds. Writing across the Disciplines: Research into Practice. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1986. 254 pp.  (Chapters for non-Composition disciplines: Engineering, 9, 12, & 13; Psychology and Poetry, 10; Biology, 11; Mathematics, 14; and Literature, 15.)

Herrington, Anne and Charles Moran. Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. New York: MLA, 1992. 265 pp.  (Recommended by Toby Fulwiler)  (Part one contains histories of WAC.)

Web Sites

Berkeley. Encouraging Student Writing: A Guide for Instructors(pdf)

CollegeWriting.info Click on  “CollegeWriting.info.” A free Web composition textbook with three “Writing in all Fields” sections.

CompPile. An expanding database of publications in composition and rhetoric. Nearly 60,000 citations for writing-related articles and essays that have appeared in journals, book series, and edited collections

Elbow, Peter. Writing for Learning--Not Just for Demonstrating Learning. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Myers, Chet. “Designing Effective Written Assignments".

The Ohio State University Center for Writing Excellence and Writing across the Curriculum. Has numerous links to great resources.

University of Minnesota Writing Intensive requirements for its writing-in-the-disciplines courses and University of Minnesota Composition Program’s Online Grammar Handbook.

WAC Clearinghouse. This comprehensive site includes links to many helpful WAC resources, including major WAC programs, bibliographies, conferences, teaching ideas, and journals. Clearinghouse “members” can submit information and ideas to the web site and participate in on-line discussions about WAC-related issues.