What assignments do university professors ask Nursing students to write? Roger Graves Director, Writing Across the Curriculum Professor, English and Film.

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What assignments do university professors ask Nursing students to write? Roger Graves Director, Writing Across the Curriculum Professor, English and Film Studies University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Susan Chaudoir WAC Research Assistant PhD Candidate Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies University of Alberta Edmonton, AB

Roger Graves

Canadian context: a primer  With one or two exceptions, no required first year writing courses; writing historically taught through the study of literature  WAC programs that support faculty members are few and far between; WAC programs more commonly support students (“How to write a psychology paper” workshops for students)  Wide range of writing centres; perhaps the closest point of comparison with US context  Disciplinary support for writing more common—not across the curriculum but in the discipline

 R. Graves, T. Hyland, B. Samuels. Undergraduate Writing Assignments: An Analysis of Syllabi at One Canadian College. Written Communication 27 (3).  This study collected 485 assignments from 179 syllabi at a small liberal arts college in Ontario  My co-authors will talk in detail about that study on Saturday morning at this conference Previous study

Methods: Assignments  We gathered copies of course outlines and assignments that are given to students  All assignments and documents were coded by the researchers  course year level  genre  word length  value (percentage of final grade)  source documentation  provision of feedback  method of assessment (rubric, holistic, analytic) Syllabus Nursing 390 Syllabus Nursing 390

Coding  Coding scheme developed in pilot study  Syllabi and assignments collected, copied, and systematically numbered  All assignments and documents coded by the researchers  The coded assignments entered into an Excel data sheet and imported into SPSS for descriptive data analysis

Research questions for the Nursing study  What range of genres of writing assignments are Nursing students asked to write?  Does this range vary over the 4 year program?  Do these assignments get longer and more common in upper years of the program?  How might instructors scaffold writing assignments within a course to help students achieve the course goals and develop their writing skills?

WAC at University of Alberta  Faculty development, individually and in group workshops  Classroom support for instructors in the disciplines: getting their students started on writing assignments  Research: writing “inventories” to describe how departments use writing now (baseline data) and to inform discussions of how to expand, direct, or improve the use of writing for learning

Faculty of Nursing writing assignment analysis Analysis Overview Number of courses analysed42 Number of courses with writing assignments36 Number of writing assignments157 writing assignments in Year 117 writing assignments in Year 233 writing assignments in Year 350 writing assignments in Year 457 Courses not analysed: 192, 193, 292, 408, 410, 461, 492, 498, 499 Reason: no current syllabus provided

Number of writing assignments by year level

Number of courses with writing assignments Year%Total number of courses (n=42) 150%5 out of 10 courses 286%6 out of 7 courses 3100%12 out of 12 courses 4100%13 out of 13 courses

Number of writing assignments per course Do number of assignments increase as nursing students advance? YES

Types of writing assignments Self Evaluation 38 Paper 29 Handout 17 Personal Goals 12 Journal 12 Report 12 Peer Evaluation 11 Group 11 Presentation 8 Outline 3 Annot. Biblio. 2 Proposal 1 Field Notes 1

Assignment type grouped by year Assignment Total Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Self Evaluation Paper Handout Personal Goals Journal Report Peer Evaluation Group Presentation Outline Annot. Biblio Proposal Field Notes

Nested Total Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Yes No How many nested assignments are there in the nursing student’s programme? 112 = 72% Nested writing assignments

Do assignments get progressively more nested as nursing students advance? YES Nested writing assignments grouped by year level

Length of writing assignment grouped by year level Do assignments get longer as nursing students advance? Writing assignments do not get longer, but they increased 400% between Year 1 and 4 Length Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year

Audience of writing assignment grouped by year level Who are the nursing students writing for? The professor, marker, or peers Audience Total Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 In Class Outside Class10001 No data71600

Feedback on writing assignments grouped by year level Do nursing students get feedback early in their programme? YES

Rubric for writing assignments grouped by year level 60% of the time Are rubrics provided for nursing students throughout their programme?

Other disciplines  Currently we have collected writing assignment data for a service learning program, political science department, and geography department and have interest in this kind of a study from a physical education faculty and an english department  We will begin comparing data between disciplines this summer and fall 2010 