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Tiêu đề

Collaborative partnerships: Writing in the engineering classroom (using undergraduate course assistants from the english department to improve the writing skills of engineering students)

Tác giả

McGrann R.T.R.; Fellows S.B.; Laferty E.M.

Năm xuất bản

2005

Source title

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Số trích dẫn

DOI

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33947241845&partnerID=40&md5=8b20afe81cf0bc3559770c12471881c5

Tóm tắt

Teaching effective communication skills to engineering students, especially first year students in large classes, can be a time-consuming, labor-intensive endeavor. This paper describes an instructional system that employs undergraduate course assistants (UCA's) from the liberal arts college, typically the English department, to promote effective written communication skills of freshman engineering students. The paper presents information from an interactive session held at FIE 2004 and a case study of a program that has been used successfully at our university and which can serve as a template to create a similar learning experience in other institutions. The key component of this system is the training program for the UCA's. It has been observed that, by incorporating the use of UCA's into the engineering classroom, especially in Freshman Programs, the written communication skills of engineering students can be improved without increasing the workload of the primary instructor. © 2005 IEEE.

Từ khóa

Communication; Course assistants; Freshman programs; Writing

Tài liệu tham khảo

Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin, (2003); Engineering Criteria 2000, (1995); McKeachie W.J., Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory For College and University Teachers, (2001)