Assessing the Writing Process: Do Writing-Intensive First-Year Seminars Change How Students Write?

Teaching Sociology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-31

  Kolb, Kenneth H ^a   Longest, Kyle C ^a   Jensen, Mollie J ^b  

^a FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Metropolitan Nashville   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; writing process; writing intensive course

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871373309     PISSN: 0092055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0092055X12448777     Document Type: Article

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