Academic literacies seminar 2009

Thinking Writing is pleased to host the 2009 academic literacies seminar: Research, scholarship and practice in the area of Academic Literacies. The seminar will take place at Queen Mary, University of London on Friday 12 June 2009, and the theme is 'Can Academic Literacies be taught?'.

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Final program ( Word document)

Abstracts (Word document)

Selected powerpoints and handouts:

Fiona English - 'Rethinking Genre' (presentation)

Weronicka Gorska - ‘Students' academic literacy practices – insights on the development of academic writing' (powerpoint)

Lesley Gourlay - ‘Brokering student writing ‘in a halfway house'?: new lecturers, marginal identities and tacit practices' (powerpoint, handout)

Colleen McKenna and Phyllis Crème - ‘Making spaces for writing in Higher Education' (powerpoint)

Teresa McConlogue and Sally Mitchell - ‘Involving students in assessment: can peer and collaborative assessment be transformative' (activity 1, activity 2)

Peter O'Neill and Kathy Harrington - ‘Towards a sustainable model for AcLits and Writing in the Disciplines development' (powerpoint)

Mary Scott and Theresa Lillis -‘What's in a name? Holding on to ‘academic literacies' as epistemology and ideology' (powerpoint, activity 1, activity 2, activity 3)

Brian Street - ‘'Hidden' Features of Academic Paper Writing' (draft paper)

Pat Thomson - ‘Postgraduate writing pedagogies' (powerpoint)