Question, Research, Experiment, and Write

Article after article I learned more and will take away even more.  WAC, otherwise known as writing across the curriculum, is used in schools to help students improve their writing skills.  This program utilizes many key ideas from allowing students to express themselves to giving students power over their knowledge.  However, there are always negatives that go along with the positives.  In this case researchers realized that although writing has it’s benefits it can also lead to a silent struggle for some.  Especially for a student that excels in math and science and is suddenly asked to write a paper in this subject.  This poses a problem as the student becomes increasingly focused on the writing components and less focused on the unique content.  Fortunately, after many studies and several personal opinions I believe that WAC’s benefits outweigh it’s drawbacks.  Not only do students become more confident and more knowledgeable in that content area, but they learn the vocabulary of that subject.  Writing is also a means of getting everything you have crammed into your head, out, it’s a way to organize information.

I have learned a great deal not only from researching WAC but from utilizing an online blog source to express my knowledge and my findings.  As this and many other sources reveal, writing is becoming necessary, and without it one may not be able to successfully make it in our changing technological world.