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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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 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
• The Point of Writing: Is Student Writing in Higher Education Developed or Merely Assessed
• Moving Towards an 'Academic Literacies' Pedagogy: Dialogues of Participation
• Part Two Developing UK Writing Programmes and Initiatives
• A Critical Narrative of the Evolution of a US/UK Writing Programme
• Teaching Writing Within a Discipline: The Speak-Write Project
• Exploiting the Potential of Writing for Educational Change at Queen Mary, University of London
• Engineering Writing: Replacing 'Writing Classes' with a 'Writing Imperative'
• Building Undergraduate Writing Provision from Within a Discipline
• If not Rhetoric and Composition, then what? Teaching Teachers to Teach Writing
• Part Three Responding to Other Models
• Teaching Academic Writing in Australian Universities
• Learning From-Not Duplicating-US Composition Theory and Practice
• Sentimental Education: First-Year Writing as Compulsory Ritual in American Colleges And Universities
• Skills, Access, and 'Basic Writing': A Community College Case Study from the United States
• Peering Across the Pond: The Role of Students in Developing Other Students' Writing in the UK and USA
• Afterword Teaching Writing in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges