skip to main content
10.1145/1734263.1734337acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagessigcseConference Proceedingsconference-collections
research-article

Writing in an upper-level CS course

Published: 10 March 2010 Publication History

Abstract

This paper discusses the use of writing as a teaching approach for an upper level computer science course. In describing my experiences, I hope to encourage those schools/teachers who are considering incorporating writing into such a course. Many different kinds of writing are compared and contrasted. Attention is paid to practicalities of the writing process and of the demands made of faculty in these writing-based courses.

References

[1]
Bean, J.C. 2001 Engaging Ideas. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
[2]
Dugan, R. F. Jr. and Polanski, V. G. 2006. Writing for Computer Science: A Taxonomy of Writing Tasks and General Advice. JCSC (21,6) pp 191--203.
[3]
Gersting, J. L. and Young, F. H. 2001. Shall We Write? SIGCSE Bulletin (33, 2) pp 18--19.
[4]
Graham, P. 2003. The Hundred-Year Language. http://paulgraham.com/hundred.html Also appears in Hackers and Painters, O'Reilly, 2004.
[5]
Hoffman, M. E., Dansdill T. and Herscovici, D. S. 2006. Bridging Writing to Learn and Writing in the Discipline in Computer Science Education. Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp 117--121.
[6]
Kay, D. G. 1998. Computer Scientists Can Teach Writing: An Upper Division Course for Computer Science Majors. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp 117--120.
[7]
Pesante, L. H. 1991. Integrating Writing Into Computer Science Courses. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp 205--209.
[8]
Pinker, S. 1997. How the Mind Works. W. W. Norton.
[9]
Walker, H. M. 1998. Writing Within the Computer Science Curriculum. SIGCSE Bulletin (30,2) pp 24--25.
[10]
Wilson, Gregory V.2004. Extensible Programming for the 21st Century. ACM Queue Magazine vol. 2, no. 9

Cited By

View all
  • (2021)Writing and speech instruction in an introductory artificial intelligence courseJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/3447307.344731836:5(119-128)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2021
  • (2020)A Methodology to Integrate Professional Skill Development throughout an ICT CurriculumProceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3341525.3387358(280-286)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2020
  • (2018)Writing in CSProceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3159450.3159620(402-403)Online publication date: 21-Feb-2018
  • Show More Cited By

Recommendations

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences
SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2010
618 pages
ISBN:9781450300063
DOI:10.1145/1734263
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 10 March 2010

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Check for updates

Author Tags

  1. communication skills
  2. writing across the curriculum
  3. writing in computer science classes
  4. writing to learn

Qualifiers

  • Research-article

Conference

SIGCSE10
Sponsor:

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 1,787 of 5,146 submissions, 35%

Upcoming Conference

SIGCSE TS 2025
The 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
February 26 - March 1, 2025
Pittsburgh , PA , USA

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

  • Downloads (Last 12 months)14
  • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
Reflects downloads up to 17 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all
  • (2021)Writing and speech instruction in an introductory artificial intelligence courseJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/3447307.344731836:5(119-128)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2021
  • (2020)A Methodology to Integrate Professional Skill Development throughout an ICT CurriculumProceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3341525.3387358(280-286)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2020
  • (2018)Writing in CSProceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3159450.3159620(402-403)Online publication date: 21-Feb-2018
  • (2017)Board # 42 : Exploring Video Projects and Media Literacy in a Computer Networking Course2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings10.18260/1-2--27852Online publication date: Jun-2017
  • (2014)Fiction as an Introduction to Computer Science ResearchACM Transactions on Computing Education10.1145/257687314:1(1-14)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2014
  • (2014)Workplace scenarios to integrate communication skills and contentProceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/2538862.2538916(349-354)Online publication date: 5-Mar-2014
  • (2012)Writing-to-Learn in Undergraduate Science Education: A Community-Based, Conceptually Driven ApproachCBE—Life Sciences Education10.1187/cbe.11-08-006411:1(17-25)Online publication date: Mar-2012
  • (2012)Student perception of academic writing skills activities in a traditional programming courseComputers & Education10.1016/j.compedu.2011.12.00158:4(1028-1041)Online publication date: 1-May-2012
  • (2011)Reading strategies and student comprehension in an Internet ethics courseProceedings of the 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference10.1109/FIE.2011.6142711(F2C-1-1-F2C-7)Online publication date: 12-Oct-2011

View Options

Login options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Figures

Tables

Media

Share

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media