Teaching academic writing in UK higher education : theories, practices and models

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ganobcsik-Williams, Lisa , 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan , c2006
Series:Universities into the 21st century
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. New contexts, new challenges: the teaching of writing in UK higher education
  • 2. The point of writing: is student writing in higher education developed or merely assessed?
  • 3. Moving towards an 'academic literacies' pedagogy: dialogues of participation
  • 4. A critical narrative of the evolution of a UK/US university writing programme
  • 5. Exploiting the potential of writing for educational change at queen mary, University of London
  • 6. Teaching writing within a discipline: the speak-write project
  • 7. Building an academic writing programme from within a discipline
  • 8. Engineering writing: replacing 'writing classes' with a 'writing imperative'
  • 9. If not rhetoric and composition, then what? teaching teachers to teach writing
  • 10. Teaching academic writing from the 'centre' in Australian Universities
  • 11. Sentimental education: first-year writing as compulsory ritual in IS colleges and universitites
  • 12. Learning from-not duplicating-US composition theory and practice
  • 13. Skills, access and 'basic writing':a community college case study from the United States
  • 14. Peering across the pond: the role of students in developing other students' writing in the US and UK