Clear Writing Means Clear Thinking: Two Narratives of the Collaborative Teaching of James Madison's Federalist 10 & 51

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Anyone who has ever graded a term paper knows that students seem to forget most everything they learned in freshman composition class when it comes time to write an analytical essay in another course. “Writing across the curriculum” has become almost a mantra that schools have adopted to counter this problem. Yet it is unclear exactly what “writing across the curriculum” means, and it is more uncertain how to implement the concept. This paper grows out of an effort to put “writing across the curriculum” into practice through collaborative teaching at Hampden-Sydney College.