‘Asking pompeii questions’: a co-operative approach to Writing in the disciplines

This article is an account of a cooperative project to develop student writing within an interdisciplinary human sciences degree, in line with the ‘Writing in the Disciplines’ approach adopted in the USA that aims to develop student writing within mainstream teaching. The course tutor worked with a writing tutor to introduce a ‘writing strand’ into a first year course in archaeology. The project is described and evaluated with examples from...