Using linked courses to scale institutional walls.

Abstract

This paper describes two models for integrating technical writing with discipline-specific courses through service-learning: a linked course model and a linked project model. Both models allowed students to practice discipline-specific communication by writing grant proposals and other necessary artifacts. Our collaborations enabled us to become more reflective practitioners by seeing what we do through the lens of another discipline. Working with the community and writing for the community are means of increasing critical consciousness about complex social problems while working within the semester system.

Introduction

In Writing ...