Writing in an upper-level CS course

SIGCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 209-213

  Garvey, Alan ^a  

^a TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication skills; Writing across the curriculum; Writing in computer science classes; Writing to learn

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SKILLS; COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE; TEACHING APPROACHES; WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM; WRITING PROCESS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77952119217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734263.1734337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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