Student Writing in Higher Education : New Contexts

by Lea, Mary R.; Stierer, Barry

• ISBN13: 9780335204083
• ISBN10: 0335204082
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Student Writing in Higher Education is the first book to examine student writing in the context of major changes taking place in today's higher education. For example, students now come to higher education from an increasingly wide range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, to study in a number of diverse learning environments. Their courses often no longer reflect traditional academic subject boundaries, with their attendant values and norms. There is also an increasing recognition of the importance of lifelong learning, and the necessity for universities to adapt their provision to make it possible for learners to enter and return to higher education at different points in their lives.

Against the background of these changes, this book brings together research carried out by practitioners in a number of international university contexts. Each of the chapters focuses on some aspect of 'new contexts' -- either by examining the writing and assessment practices of non-traditional university courses and settings, or by exploring attempts to introduce innovati

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Editors' Introduction	1	(14)
Mary R. Lea
Barry Stierer
Part 1: Student Writing: Practices and Contexts	15	(52)
Academic Writing in New and Emergent Discipline Areas	17	(15)
Mike Baynham
Student Writing and Staff Feedback in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Approach	32	(15)
Mary R. Lea
Brian V. Street
What Am I Supposed to Make of This? The Messages Conveyed to Students by Tutors' Written Comments	47	(20)
Roz Ivanic
Romy Clark
Rachel Rimmershaw
Part 2: New Forms of Writing in Specific Course Contexts	67	(80)
Computer Conferencing: New Possibilities for Writing and Learning in Higher Education	69	(17)
Mary R. Lea
Making Dances, Making Essays: Academic Writing in the Study of Dance	86	(11)
Sally Mitchell
Victoria Marks-Fisher
Lynne Hale
Judith Harding
The `Personal' in University Writing: Uses of Reflective Learning Journals	97	(15)
Phyllis Creme
Writing in Postgraduate Teacher Training: A Question of Identity	112	(13)
Mary Scott
A Question of Attribution: The Indeterminacy of `Learning from Experience'	125	(22)
Simon Pardoe
Part 3: Contexts of Writing and Professional Learning	147	(49)
Writing for Success in Higher Education	149	(16)
Janice McMillan
From Personal Experience to Reflective Practitioner: Academic Literacies and Professional Education	165	(14)
Elizabeth Hoadley-Maidment
Schoolteachers as Students: Academic Literacy and the Construction of Professional Knowledge within Master's Courses in Education	179	(17)
Barry Stierer
References	196	(7)
Index	203	(4)
The Society for Research into Higher Education	207