摘要：At Wittenberg University, as at many schools, students are required to take several writing-intensive courses. Such courses are taught in all the disciplines and, according to the Faculty Manual, include “writing as an integral part of teaching and learning, with class time devoted to the discussion of the writing process and assignments designed to reinforce and develop writing skills.” Ideally, students in these courses should enhance their writing ability as they enhance their knowledge of the course content; the question, though, is how to handle these overlapping goals. In this article we describe a writing project that requires students to create textbook chapters for their peers—an assignment in which students must demonstrate their knowledge of the course content by sharing it in writing with their classmates. This textbook-writing assignment, or a modified version of it, might be applicable to other writing intensive courses across the curriculum.
