In March 2013, the inaugural Action Project internal grants were awarded by the IDW Advisory Board. Each project is designed to improve disciplinary writing – that is, writing that demonstrates a reasoning process supported by research and reflection on a problem, topic or issue. The Improving Disciplinary Writing Action Projects allow academic programs the flexibility and funding to try different tactics to help faculty learn, develop, and implement best practices to improve writing and student learning in the upper-division undergraduate courses within their programs.
Action Projects, funded through an internal grant process, are designed to encourage academic programs to learn, develop, and implement best practices to improve writing in the upper- division undergraduate courses within their programs. All programs are discipline-specific wherein upper-division courses teach the higher-level knowledge and skills as well as the methods, conventions, and sources appropriate to the specific area of study. The Action Project process creates a flexible structure which will offer a range of excellent ideas and models that schools and departments can adopt, while also providing for an individual program to develop curricula appropriate to its own unique activities and subject matter.
