Intertextuality in student writing : the intersection of the academic curriculum and student voices in first year economics assignments

This is an interpretive qualitative study which uses linguisitic and intertextual analysis to examine student writing in a first year university economics course. The research has investigated the acquisition of the new academic discourse by drawing on Bakhtin's concept of intertextuality to consider new discourses, discourse models and literacy and learning practices that students draw on as they write their essays. Gee's theories of situated meanings and cultural models were used as tools for analysing the ways in which students draw on existing linguistic resources to access new discourses and to make sense of new concepts.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

2004

Author dc:creator

• Paxton, Moragh Isobel Jane

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Bock, Mary
• Herrington, Anne

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10822

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10822