Main description:

Provides a framework for teaching undergraduate writing courses with an interdisciplinary focus on health literacy
Valuable text for writing instructors across composition, technical communication, health humanities, and writing in the health professions programs, and assignable as a text for pedagogy courses or health-focused courses in these areas
Chapters feature research and case studies on the implementation of health literacy approaches in a variety of contexts including specific assignments, full programs, and online teaching

Contents:

Introduction: The intersections of health literacies and undergraduate writing instruction Part 1: Assignments and courses Chapter 1. Engaging health literacies through multimodal projects in first-year writing Chapter 2. Teaching critical thinking for critical health literacies: A problem-based writing approach Chapter 3. First do no harm: Promoting health literacies through empathy adventures in the writing classroom and beyond Chapter 4. Rhetorical aesthetics and health literacies Chapter 5. Cross-disciplinary vaccine education through a campus-community partnership Part 2: Programs Chapter 6. Context matters: Identifying strategic opportunities to support health literacies through writing interventions Chapter 7. Reflection for health literacies in the health science curriculum Chapter 8. Writing across the health literacies curriculum: The Bachelor of Healthcare Studies program at MUSC Part 3: Extensions Chapter 9. Cultural health navigation and health literacy sponsorship: Implications for the undergraduate writing curriculum Chapter 10. Making well informed decisions: Data collection, health information, and undergraduate writing instruction Chapter 11. Creating content for contexts of care: A cognitive approach to achieving health literacies through usability