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

by Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams

• ISBN13: 9781403945358
• ISBN10: 1403945357
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230208582
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-08-22
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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 * Moving Towards an 'Academic Literacies' 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 * Teaching Writing Within a Discipline: The Speak-Write Project--T.Young & S.Avery * Exploiting the Potential of Writing for Educational Change at Queen Mary, University of London--S.Mitchell & A.Evison * Engineering Writing: Replacing 'Writing Classes' with a 'Writing Imperative'--A.Ahearn * Building Undergraduate Writing Provision from Within a Discipline--A.Ganobcsik-Williams * If not Rhetoric and Composition, then what? Teaching Teachers to Teach Writing--R.Murray * PART THREE--RESPONDING TO OTHER MODELS * Teaching Academic Writing in Australian Universities--J.Skillen * Learning From-Not Duplicating-US Composition Theory and Practice--J.Mullin * Sentimental Education: First-Year Writing as Compulsory Ritual in American Colleges And Universities--J.Heyda * 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 & L.Ganobcsik-Williams * Afterword Teaching Writing in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges--Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams