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Teaching academic writing in UK higher education : theories, practices and models / edited by Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams.

Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Universities into the 21st centuryPublisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Description: xxvi, 246 sISBN:
  • 1403945357
  • 1403945349
  • 9781403945341
  • 9781403945358
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.042071141 22
Other classification:
  • Aef
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Book Biblioteket HKR Biblioteket 808.066 Teaching Available 11156000170756
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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