Bridging writing to learn and writing in the discipline in computer science education
Mark E. Hoffman, Timothy Dansdill, David Samuel Herscovici · 2006
Writing in Computer Science education is typically to communicate to a professional audience--also known as writing in the (WID) A few Computer Science educators have promoted writing to (WTL) for active learning. A gap exists between these two forms of that inhibits the general adoption of in Computer Science. We propose that bridging informal WTL assignments to formal disciplinary as a way of promoting general adoption of across all courses, thus improving thinking and skills for all Computer Science students. We include examples of assignments that bridge to learn and in the discipline.