Writing Steam: Composition, Stem, and a New Humanities

✍ Scribed by Vivian Kao (editor), Julia E Kiernan (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited collection positions writing at the center of interdisciplinary higher education, and explores how writing instruction, writing scholarship, and writing program administration bring STEM and the humanities together in meaningful, creative, and beneficial ways.

Writing professionals are at the forefront of a cross-pollination between STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and the arts and humanities. In their work as educators, scholars, and administrators, they collaborate with colleagues in engineering, scientific, technical, and health disciplines, offer new degree programs that allow students to bring the humanities to bear on design experiments, and build an academic culture that promotes a vision of the humanities in the twenty-first century, as well as a vision of technology that is decidedly human. This collection surveys and promotes that work through chapters focused on writing instruction, writing scholarship, and writing program administration, covering topics that include data-driven writing courses, public science communication, non-traditional college students, creative writing, gamification, skills transfer, and Writing Across the Curriculum programs.

Writing STEAM will be essential reading for scholars, instructors, and administrators in writing studies, rhetoric and composition, STEM, and a variety of interdisciplinary programs; it will aid in teacher training for both humanities and STEM courses focused on writing and communication.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
SECTION I: Teaching
1 Gaining STEAM: The Integral Role of Composition in an Increasingly STEM World
2 Building Socioscientific Trust Is a Post-secondary Obligation: Preparing STEM Students to Communicate and Engage with Public Audiences
3 STEAM Storytime: Fusing Artistic Expression with Scientific Discourse through Picture Books
4 Interdisciplinary Collaboration for a New Humanities and a New Engineer
SECTION II: Research and Scholarship
5 “STEAM”-ING Up Composition: Inquiry-Based Learning and the Nontraditional Student
6 Knowledge in the Making: How STEAM can Transform Notions of Expertise
7 Toward a Mindful Application of Gamification
8 Familiar Technologies and Learning Principles to Attract and Retain STEM Student Interest in First-Year Writing
9 Creative Writing across the Curriculum: Defining and Illustrating a Method for STEM/Humanities Integration
SECTION III: Writing Program Administration
10 “Some of the Rooms Are Occupied by Squirrels”: Communication and the New Polytechnic
11 All Aboard: Gaining STEAM in Health Sciences Education
12 “To Feel, With Amazement, Their Minds”: Science, Humanism, Inquiry, and the Rhetorical Work of Wonder
13 Local Exigencies in a World of Expectations: STEM Writing Programs and the Great Balancing Act
Index