Margot Soven’s scientific contributions

... The movement of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) starting in the 1960s and 1970s ushered in the recognition of the important role of writing in learning and across disciplines, as effective writing skills are essential for quality learning as in keeping a journal or taking fields notes for academic purposes. Later, given the variety of disciplinary conventions and formats in research articles, courses and curriculums focused on writing inside/within specific disciplines, and Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) began to emerge (Brian 1992;McLeod 1992). The target course of this study, Technical and Scientific English Writing, is a relatively new course, as a response to the need to publish in English. ...

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Innovative Approaches in Teaching English Writing to Chinese Speakers

... Complementary, AI Across the Curriculum encompasses all AI applications and aligns with the interdisciplinary character of WAC for imparting AI knowledge and skills to the upcoming generation (Southworth et al., 2023). Recognizing the significance of training in implementing WAC and AI Across the Curriculum initiatives, this pilot study aims to enhance engineering formation (McLeod & Soven, 1992). Ultimately, LLM models can be used to elevate writing as a tool for learning, critical thinking, and communication across diverse AEC fields, ultimately enhancing students' writing proficiency for engineering formation. ...

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LLM-based System for Technical Writing Real-time Review in Urban Construction and Technology

... When the literature does focus on WAC program administration, it tends to emphasize program description and advice rather than building a theory of administering and building WAC programs. The WAC literature describes individual programs (Fulwiler & Young, 1990;Segall & Smart, 2005;Thaiss et al., 2012); provides advice for developing specific program elements, such as faculty workshops or writing fellows initiatives (Mcleod, 1988;McLeod & Soven, 1991;McLeod et al. 2011;International Network of WAC Program, 2014); and describes challenges to WAC programs and steps WAC directors may take so that their programs persist (Townsend, 2008;Young & Fulwiler, 1990). All of these texts offer nuts-and-bolts advice for building and developing WAC programs rooted in experience, knowledge of the field, and writing theory and research-but not theories of writing program administration or methodologies for creating sustainable programs. ...

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Building Sustainable WAC Programs: A Whole Systems Approach