Gaining STEAM : the integral role of composition in an increasingly STEM world / Katelynn DeLuca -- Building socioscientific trust is a post-secondary obligation : preparing STEM students to communicate and engage with public audiences / Julia E. Kiernan -- STEAM storytime : fusing artistic expression with scientific discourse through picture books / Rebekah Fitzsimmons & Tamara Pearson -- Interdisciplinary collaboration for a new humanities and a new engineer / Olivia Burgess & Alina Handorean -- STEAMing up composition : inquiry-based learning and the non-traditional student / Erica Duran & Lauren Mecucci Springer -- Knowledge in the making : how STEAM can transform notions of expertise / Rolf Norgaard -- Toward a mindful application of gamification / Whitney Hardin -- Familiar technologies and learning principles to attract and retain STEM student interest in first-year writing / John Misak -- Creative writing across the curriculum : defining and illustrating a method for STEM/humanities integration / Justin Nicholes -- "Some of the rooms are occupied by squirrels" : communication and the new polytechnic / Sarah V. Seeley -- All Aboard : gaining STEAM in health sciences education / Courtney Watson -- "To feel, with amazement, their minds" : science, humanism, inquiry, and the rhetorical work of wonder / Kara Wittman -- Local exigencies in a world of expectations : STEM writing programs and the great balancing act / Vivian Kao, Aviva Gordon, Daniel Moyer, & Abir Sleiman.
Summary:
"This edited collection positions writing and composition professionals at the center of liberal 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 scholars are at the forefront of a cross-pollination between STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and the arts and humanities. In their daily work as educators, scholars, and administrators, they find ways to collaborate with colleagues in engineering, scientific, 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 instruction, scholarship, and writing program administration that cover topics including 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, and interdisciplinary programs, and will aid in teacher training for both humanities and STEM courses focused on writing and communication"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.