New: Writing Expertise & Keywords in Design Thinking (Two books)

University Press of Colorado along with The WAC Clearinghouse is proud to announce the publication of Writing Expertise: A Research-Based Approach to Writing and Learning Across Disciplines, by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle and of Keywords in Design Thinking: A Lexical Primer for Technical Communicators and Designers, edited by Jason C. K. Tham.

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Writing Expertise: A Research-Based Approach to Writing and Learning Across Disciplines
by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle
Practices and Possibilities Series
Copublished with the WAC Clearinghouse
In Writing Expertise, Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle address the question, “How can instructors across disciplines best help students write well?” Drawing on research about how disciplines use writing to engage in shared ways of thinking, practicing, and demonstrating knowledge, the authors offer an approach that helps faculty across the disciplines invite students to bring new ideas and identities to their work. Throughout the book, Adler-Kassner and Wardle help instructors explore what it means to write well in their courses, fields, or disciplines and offer strategies and activities that can help them improve their assignments by infusing research-based writing activities into their courses.
Writing Expertise provides an innovative, equity- and research-based approach to writing in the disciplines that will enrich instructor and student thinking. Thoughtful discussions and well-designed activities provide the support needed to help instructors put disciplinary thinking into written form, develop systematic aways of learning about the students who write in their courses, and ultimately develop more effective, inclusive courses.
This book is also available as an open access ebook through the WAC Clearinghouse. 
Paper: $15.95
Ebook: Open Access
ISBN: 978-1-64642-393-4
Pages: 112

Keywords in Design Thinking: A Lexical Primer for Technical Communicators and Designers
edited by Jason C. K. Tham
Foundations and Innovations in Technical and Professional Communications Series
Copublished with the WAC Clearinghouse

At a time when design thinking is viewed by many as itself a contested term, Keywords in Design Thinking explores keywords and associated practices related to the use of this critical concept in technical and professional communication. The chapters in this edited collection offer definitions stable enough to allow readers to determine the value of design thinking and to apply and examine its usefulness in the design of technical and professional discourse. The contributors to this collection include faculty at research-intensive and comprehensive colleges, graduate students, and industry practitioners. This configuration of contributors is intended to increase the diversity of perspectives and offer a variety of routes to understanding design thinking.
This book is also available as an open access ebook through the WAC Clearinghouse. 
Paper: $22.95
Ebook: Open Access
ISBN: 978-1-64642-394-1
Pages: 174