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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Writing in the Disciplines"”.
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An Exploration of Practice Surrounding Student Writing in the Disciplines in UK Higher Education from the Perspectives of Academic Teachers
This thesis aims to contribute to our understanding of academic literacies in the UK context by exploring the practices of subject-based academic teachers around student writing through the lens of teachers’ experiences. Empirical work has yielded a great deal of insight in recent years into …
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Transfer and Faculty Writing Knowledge: An Activity Theory Analysis
The purpose of this study was to determine how faculty members' previous writing experiences in a variety of activity systems shaped their current understanding of writing, as well as to analyze the ways in which this understanding manifests itself in the courses they teach. Using a survey, …
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Stories About Writing (Centers): Sites of Innovation in (Online) Writing Instruction
In this dissertation I study the University of Houston Writing Center (UHWC) as a site for innovative writing instruction while simultaneously critiquing business-model approaches to the teaching of writing. Using the Writing Center as a microcosm for the larger issues affecting writing pedagogy, I …
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Practice and Efficacy of Peer Writing Feedback in a Large First-Year Engineering Course
Engineering educators and industry professionals recognize the need for graduates to be effective communicators, yet the effective teaching of communication remains a persistent contemporary issue, with studies continuing to indicate that engineering graduates are insufficiently prepared for …
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Styling academic discourse: a sociocultural account of writing styles across disciplines
This dissertation advances a more rigorous theoretical and empirical approach to the study of disciplinary writing style. In scholarly and pedagogical conversations around disciplinary writing, there is a prevailing tendency to see disciplines as having singular, stable, agreed-upon styles; in the …
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A Study of Writing within Discipline-Specific Writing Support Centers: Expanding our Definitions
This dissertation explores discipline-specific writing support spaces in an attempt to better understand disciplinary writing from various perspectives. Neal Lerner suggests that writing center scholarship would benefit from interdisciplinary work; therefore, I investigate spaces that are uniquely …