Teaching academic writing in UK higher education : theories, practices, and models /: theories, practices, and models. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams.
• Other Names: Ganobcsik-Williams, Lisa, 1966-
• 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
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 808/.042071141; Composition & Creative Writing; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States; Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain; Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- United States; Writing skills; Teaching skills & techniques
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137019233; 1137019239
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