Teaching Academic Writing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Teaching Academic Writing consists of ten teaching-focused chapters offering solutions to the issues confronting the teacher of academic writing. The contributors give practical advice about how to teach an academic writing class, offer classroom solutions for the novice teacher, and discuss the place of feedback and assessment. The chapters also examine the use of different media in the academic writing classroom, the problem of plagiarism, and background issues affecting students' ability to learn. Including a breadth of practical advice and focused around the real issues confronting the teacher of academic writing, this will be the essential book for teachers of academic writing in higher education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9780826495327
• ISBN-10: 082649532X
• Artikelnr.: 23083508

Autorenporträt

Patricia Friedrich is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and History at Arizona State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. First-Year Composition in the 20th Century U.S. Higher Education: An Historical Overview
A. Abby Knoblauch
(University of New Hampshire
USA and Paul Matsuda
Arizona State University
USA) 2. Disciplines: Academic Writing and the Disciplines
Siân Etherington (University of Salford
UK) 3. Pedagogy: Teaching Writing Teachers To Teach Writing
Duku Anokye (Arizona State University
USA) 4. Tasks: Assignments and Activities in Teaching Academic Writing
Christine Tardy (DePaul University
USA) and Jennifer Courtney (Rowan University
USA) 5. Feedback: Issues & Options
Dana Ferris (California State University Sacramento
USA) 6. Support: Writing Support in British Higher Education: An Institutional Case Study
John Morley (University of Manchester
USA) 7. Technology: Emergent Technologies and Academic Writing: Paying Attention to Rhetoric and Design (Shawn Casey and Cindy Selfe
The Ohio State University
USA) 8. Diversity: 'I want to be part of the club': Raising Awareness of Bilingualism and Second Language Writing Among Monolingual Users of English
Patricia Friedrich (Arizona State University
USA) 9. Community: Eccentric Maps: Community-Based Writing and Rhetorical Aims
Michael Stancliff (Arizona State University
USA) 10. Academic Integrity: Plagiarism
Patchwriting and Source Use: Best Practice in the Composition Classroom
Diane Pecorari (Mälardalen University
USA) Contributor Biographies