Writing STEAM

<p>This edited collection positions writing at the center of interdisciplinary higher education and explores how writing instruction writing scholarship and writing program administration bring STEM and the humanities together in meaningful creative and beneficial ways.</p><p>Writing professionals are at the forefront of a cross-pollination between STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) and the arts and humanities. In their work as educators scholars and administrators they collaborate with colleagues in engineering scientific technical 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 writing instruction writing scholarship and writing program administration covering topics that include data-driven writing courses public science communication non-traditional college students creative writing gamification skills transfer and Writing Across the Curriculum programs. </p><p><em>Writing STEAM</em> will be essential reading for scholars instructors and administrators in writing studies rhetoric and composition STEM and a variety of interdisciplinary programs; it will aid in teacher training for both humanities and STEM courses focused on writing and communication.</p>