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

by Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams (Editor)

Overview

Academic Writing is emerging as a distinct subject for teaching and research in higher education in the UK and elsewhere. Teaching Academic Writing in UK Higher Education introduces this growing field and provides a resource for university teachers, researchers and administrators interested in developing students' writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230367982
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	06/05/2006
Series:	Universities into the 21st Century
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	631 KB

About the Author

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.

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
'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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This is a fascinating, informative and important book. All the chapters are very readable, and the subject matter is relevant to, and of interest to, every teacher in Higher Education.' - Dr. John Peck, Cardiff University, UK

'The quality of the essays overall is very high. The contributors are very well placed and well prepared to offer the research results and curricular reflections found here. The range of institutional differences within the UK contributes to the richness of the volume. As a reader located in the US with little knowledge of conditions in the UK, I gained a great deal of useful comparative information.' - Susan Jarratt, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, USA