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Academic writing instruction for Creole-influenced students / Vivette Milson-Whyte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milson-Whyte, Vivette, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic writing--Study and teaching--Jamaica.
- Academic writing.
- Creole dialects, English--Jamaica.
- Creole dialects, English.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- Languages, Mixed--Jamaica.
- Languages, Mixed.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston, Jamaica : The University of the West Indies Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Academic Writing Instruction for Creole-Influenced Students embraces the interconnections of language use in society, language teaching in schools, and writing in higher education. This first full-length book to examine the history of writing instruction and attitudes to it in the Creole-influenced Jamaican higher education context will also be of use to scholars of applied linguistics, language education, literacy, and rhetoric and composition.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Terms Used in the Book
- Abbreviations
- Literacy Crises and Myths about Creole-Influenced University Students' Writing
- Developing Local Leaders without Explicit Academic Writing Instruction Prior to Independence, Pre-1960s
- Professionalizing the Aspirant Middle Class through Survey Writing after Independence, 1960s to the Mid-1980s
- Nurturing "Linguistic Orphans" with Basic Writing in the Post-National Era, Late 1980s to 2004+
- Improving the Graduate's Profile via "Universalist" Writing at the Turn of the Century, 1990s to 2010+
- Fashioning Versatile Creole-Influenced Writers through a Transcultural Rhetorical Perspective on Writing in the New Millennium, beyond 2010
- Note
- Reference
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789766405328
- 9766405328
- OCLC:
- 1393306203
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