Student writing and genre reconfiguring academic knowledge Fiona English.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

English, Fiona, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language.

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Academic writing.

Literary form--Study and teaching (Higher).

Literary form.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is about how genres affect the ways students understand and engage with their disciplines, offering a fresh approach to genre by using affordances as a key aspect in exploring the work of first year undergraduates who were given the task of reworking an essay by using a different genre. Working within a social semiotic frame of reference, it uses the notion of genre as a clear, articulated tool for discussing the relationship between knowledge and representation. It provides pedagogical solutions to contentions around 'genres', 'disciplines', 'academic discourses' and their relation to student learning, identity and power, showing that, given the opportunity to work with different genres, students develop new ways of understanding and engaging with their disciplines. Providing a strong argument for why a wider repertoire of genres is desirable at university, this study opens up new possibilities for student writing, learning and assessment. It will appeal to teachers, subject specialists, researchers and postgraduates interested in higher education studies, academic literacies, writing in the disciplines and applied linguistics.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Shadow Writing

3. The Communicative Landscape

4. The Affordances of Genres

5. A Framework for Analysis

6. Repositioning the Writer

7. Reconfiguring Information

8. From 'Read' Experience to 'Lived' Experience

9. Genre as a Pedagogical Resource

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-216) and index

ISBN:

9786613089137

9781441171214

1441171215

9781474211963

1474211968

9781283089135

1283089130

9781441146687

1441146687

OCLC:

721194809