Browsing by Author "Haynes, Carolyn"

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    Biting Into the Yellow Pepper: The Development of the Interdisciplinary Learner
    (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014) Haynes, Carolyn
    Print version of the address delivered by Carolyn Haynes, a keynote speaker at the 35th annual conference of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, hosted by Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from November 7 to 10 in the fall of 2013.
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    Interdisciplinary Writing and the Undergraduate Experience: A Four-Year Writing Plan Proposal
    (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1996) Bailis, Stanley; Newell, William H.
    Relying upon social process compositional theory and theories of the intellectual development of college students, Haynes' article presents a proposal for how interdisciplinary writing might be fostered in a four-year undergraduate curriculum. She argues that in order for students to gain proficiency in interdisciplinary written scholarship, they must undergo a carefully sequenced set of writing experiences which progress steadily from engagement with expressive modes to a more critical awareness of disciplinary forms to the development of integrative inquiry. Her article offers a theoretical justification for her plan as well as a series of sample writing assignments.
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    Interdisciplinary Writing Assessment Profiles
    (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2003) Schindler, Roslyn Abt; Henry, Stuart
    Relying upon current interdisciplinary theories, this article offers a newly created method for assessing interdisciplinary thinking, the Interdisciplinary Writing Assessment Profiles. The Profiles is a scoring rubric for the assessment of substantive undergraduate, expository, research-based interdisciplinary writing assignments, such as a senior thesis or major term paper. In this instrument, four dimensions of interdisciplinary writing are assessed: (1) drawing on disciplinary sources, (2) critical argumentation, (3) multidisciplinary perspectives, and (4) interdisciplinary integration. The first two dimensions focus primarily on elements that should occur in disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary expository writing. The final two dimensions are more pointedly focused on interdisciplinary writing. The instrument was developed and field-tested with disciplinary senior theses from the University Honors Program and interdisciplinary senior projects from the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University in Ohio. The article discusses the reliability and validity of the scoring procedures, offers some findings about how disciplinary and interdisciplinary projects compared in terms of the scoring, and provides concrete guidance on how to make specific scoring decisions.