TY - JOUR
T1 - Redesigning Writing Instruction Within a Lab-Based Civil Engineering Course
T2 - 129th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Excellence Through Diversity, ASEE 2022
AU - Renna, Mia
AU - Avgoustopoulos, Rebecca
AU - Ware, Ryan
AU - Sooryanarayana, Karthik Pattaje
AU - Popovics, John S.
AU - Zilles, Julie L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022.
PY - 2022/8/23
Y1 - 2022/8/23
N2 - Development of effective communication skills in engineering students is critical, yet challenging. As engineering programs are technically rigorous, work-intensive, and challenged by their high enrollment numbers, methods to improve students' writing skills must be cost-effective and scalable. This paper describes pedagogical changes and shares course materials designed to integrate core concepts from writing studies into an advanced laboratory-based civil engineering course. We incorporate language units developed by the Civil Engineering Writing Project that provide strong connections to professional engineers' writing. Specific concepts that guided the redesign are genre awareness and flexibility, process orientation to writing, and global, prioritized feedback. Several semesters into the iterative implementation of these changes, teaching assistants observe greater student engagement, without an increase in teaching workload.
AB - Development of effective communication skills in engineering students is critical, yet challenging. As engineering programs are technically rigorous, work-intensive, and challenged by their high enrollment numbers, methods to improve students' writing skills must be cost-effective and scalable. This paper describes pedagogical changes and shares course materials designed to integrate core concepts from writing studies into an advanced laboratory-based civil engineering course. We incorporate language units developed by the Civil Engineering Writing Project that provide strong connections to professional engineers' writing. Specific concepts that guided the redesign are genre awareness and flexibility, process orientation to writing, and global, prioritized feedback. Several semesters into the iterative implementation of these changes, teaching assistants observe greater student engagement, without an increase in teaching workload.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85138290274
SN - 2153-5965
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
Y2 - 26 June 2022 through 29 June 2022
ER -