Teaching Academic Writing in UK Higher Education: Theories, Practices and Models

ISBN-13: 9781403945341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 272 str.

Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams

Opis

Academic writing is emerging as a distinct subject for teaching and research in higher education. This book serves as an introduction to this new field and as a resource for university teachers, researchers, and administrators interested in developing students' writing.

Spis treści

Introduction: Responding to the Call for Academic Writing Theory and Pedagogy.- PART ONE: STARTING POINTS FOR THEORY AND PEDAGOGY.- New Contexts, New Challenges: The Teaching of Writing in UK Higher Education; R.Ivanic & M.R.Lea.- The Point of Writing: Is Student Writing in Higher Education Developed or Merely Assessed?; R.Catt & G.Gregory.- 'Academic Literacies' Research as Pedagogy: Dialogues of Participation; T.M.Lillis.- PART TWO: DEVELOPING UK WRITING PROGRAMMES AND INITIATIVES.- A Critical Narrative of the Evolution of a US/UK Writing Programme; A.Tomic.- Exploiting the Potential of Writing for Educational Change at Queen Mary, University of London; S.Mitchell & A.Evison.- Teaching Writing within a Discipline: The Speak-Write Project; T.Young & S.Avery.- Building an Academic Writing Programme from Within a Discipline; A.Ganobcsik-Williams.- Engineering Writing: Replacing 'Writing Classes' with a 'Writing Imperative'; A.Ahearn.- If Not Rhetoric and Composition, Then What? Teaching Teachers to Teach Writing; R.Murray.- PART THREE: RESPONDING TO OTHER MODELS.- Teaching Academic Writing from the 'Centre' in Australian Universities; J.Skillen.- Sentimental Education: First-Year Writing as Compulsory Ritual in American Colleges and Universities; J.Heyda.- Learning From Not Duplicating US Composition Theory and Practice; J.A.Mullin.- Skills, Access, and 'Basic Writing': A Community College Case Study from the United States; M.J.Curry.- Peering across the Pond: The Role of Students in Developing Other Students' Writing in the UK and USA; B.Devet, S.Orr, M.Blythman & C.Bishop.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

LISA GANOBCSIK-WILLIAMS is Co-ordinator at the Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University, UK. One of her main research interests is the teaching of Academic Writing in subject disciplines. In 2001, she organized 'Teaching Writing in Higher Education', a conference promoting international discussion on how Academic and Creative writing can be theorized and taught at university level.