Students writing in the university : cultural and epistemological issues / edited by Carys Jones, Joan Turner, Brian Street.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Carys.

Turner, Joan, 1951-

Street, Brian V.

Series:

Studies in written language and literacy ; v. 8.

Studies in written language and literacy, 0929-7324 ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Great Britain.

English language.

Academic writing--Study and teaching--Great Britain.

Academic writing.

College students--Great Britain--Social conditions.

College students.

College students--Great Britain--Language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume aims to raise awareness of the underlying complexities concerning student writing in the universities. The authors address a series of theoretical as well as practical questions regarding the literacies required of students in Higher Education, from the perspective of both students themselves and of their tutors. The research described here intends to move beyond the narrow confines of current policy debates and the quick fix solutions of writing manuals, to explore the epistemological, cultural, historical and theoretical bases of such writing. Issues addressed include the nature of competing epistemologies that underlie the writing process and the varying degrees of explicitness about what academic writing entails; ways of challenging the institutional marginalisation of academic writing as teaching, learning, and research practice; what counts as knowledge and how far it is mediated by the rhetorical conventions of one culture; to what extent the challenging of such rhetorical conventions is itself a crucial epistemological issue. Writing, in this volume, then, is addressed in terms of academic literacy practices involving relations of power, issues of identity and theories of knowledge.

Contents:

STUDENTS WRITING IN THE UNIVERSITY

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Information about the Authors

Foreword

Introduction

SECTION A: Interacting with the Institution

CHAPTER 1. Foregrounding Background in Academic Learning

CHAPTER 2. What Do Students Really Say In Their Essays? Towards a descriptive framework for analysing student writing

CHAPTER 3. The Student from Overseas and the British University: Finding a way to succeed

CHAPTER 4. On Not Disturbing "Our Group Peace": The plight of the visiting researcher

CHAPTER 5. Writing Assignments on a PGCE (Secondary) Course: Two case studies

CHAPTER 6. Academic Literacies and Learning in Higher Education: Constructing knowledge through texts and experience

SECTION B: Mystery and Transparency in Academic Literacies

CHAPTER 7. Whose 'Common Sense'? Essayist literacy and the institutional practice of mystery

CHAPTER 8. Academic Literacy and the Discourse of Transparency

CHAPTER 9. Inventing Academic Literacy: An American perspective

CHAPTER 10. Agency and Subjectivity in Student Writing

CHAPTER 11. Academic Literacies

Index

STUDIES IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160004

9781282160002

1282160001

9789027294821

9027294828