Disciplinary Literacy Skills Project (ARC Students)

Finding a quality website or review article that talks about the disciplinary literacy skills can be a great way to fill in your background knowledge around this topic as well as jump start your research.

For example, this site from the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse on Writing in the Disciplines has helpful information for those who assign writing, including an extensive References list.

• You can use this list to pick a source as well as to help find further sources, such as:

Hotchkiss, K., & Hougen, M. (2012): Writing like a historian: What teacher candidates should know and be able to teach. The Social Studies, 103(4), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2011.596861

• The full text for this article can be found in Google Scholar or through the SPU Library databases.

It contains information on how historians think and write as well as activities to use with students. 

• Putting the article title and author names into Google Scholar can provide "Cited by" and Related" links for it that then lead to more articles, especially more recent ones. For example, 

Nokes, J. D., & Kesler-Lund, A. (2019). Historians’ Social Literacies: How Historians Collaborate and Write. The History Teacher, 52(3), 369–410. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26823668

This article reports on the processes that historians go through in their academic thinking and how this can help teachers work with students on developing their own critical thinking skills around civic issues.

Explore the tabs on this site to see how you can find the resources you need!

Librarians are information professionals who can save you time in finding resources and assist you in evaluating and incorporating those resources. 

Reach out to your School of Education Librarian, Liz Gruchala-Gilbert with any questions. Send a message to LGG@spu.edu to consult online or make an appointment for a video conference.