Student Writing: Access, Regulation, Desire

by Lillis,Theresa M.

• ISBN13: 9780415228015
• ISBN10: 0415228018
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Student Writingexplores: Access to higher education and to its representational resources-the language and literary resources available for making meaning Regulation of meaning making in academic literacy practices Desire for participation in higher education and for choices over ways of meaning in academic writing.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	ix
Preface: why write this book?	x
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction: focus and research background	1	(1)
What is this book about?	1	(1)
Who is this book for?	2	(2)
The research on which this book is based	4	(8)
Participation, interests and knowledge making	12	(1)
How this book is organised	13	(3)
Language, literacy and access to higher education	16	(17)
Introduction	16	(1)
Access to higher education	17	(3)
Student writing in higher education	20	(3)
The model of language in official discourse	23	(2)
Significant shifts in research on student writing	25	(6)
Challenging the 'textual bias'	31	(2)
Student writing as social practice	33	(20)
Introduction	33	(1)
Language and literacy as discourse practices	34	(7)
Dialogicality, addressivity and meaning making	41	(7)
The making of texts, the making of self(ves)	48	(2)
A heuristic for exploring student writing	50	(3)
Restricted access to a privileged practice	53	(25)
Introduction	53	(1)
The gap between tutors' and students' understandings of academic writing conventions	54	(4)
The enactment of the institutional practice of mystery	58	(14)
Student-writers' desire for dialogue	72	(3)
Conclusion	75	(3)
The regulation of authoring	78	(29)
Introduction	78	(1)
How essayist literacy conventions regulate	78	(3)
Texts and their producers	81	(1)
The regulation of student authoring	82	(8)
Regulation, language, identity	90	(14)
Conclusion	104	(3)
Essayist literacy, gender and desire	107	(25)
Introduction	107	(1)
Desires for participation in HE	108	(5)
Desires for meaning making	113	(14)
Desires for learning	127	(1)
Conclusion	128	(4)
Dialogues of participation	132	(28)
Introduction	132	(1)
Talking writers into essayist literacy	133	(5)
Talking to 'populate with intention'	138	(4)
Talking to make language visible	142	(5)
Talking back: a 'long conversation' with Mary	147	(11)
Conclusion	158	(2)
Re-thinking student writing in higher education	160	(21)
Introduction	160	(1)
Contributing to Academic Literacies research in higher education	160	(3)
A framework for exploring pedagogical approaches to student academic writing	163	(4)
Principles, choices, questions	167	(6)
Appendices
Appendix 1: Overview of student-writers	173	(2)
Appendix 2: Details of UK examinations, qualifications and courses	175	(1)
Appendix 3: Data collection and transcription	176	(3)
Appendix 4: Feedback and talkback sheets	179	(2)
References	181	(11)
Index	192