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Recommendations for academic writing and vocabulary

Post by J.M.A. » Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:30 pm

Does anyone have any good suggestions for titles dealing with teaching academic writing? Both theoretical and more practical approaches would be much appreciated. The course will be focusing on teachers presenting their classroom research findings as part of the ICELT. I'm thinking along the lines of Swales along with a healthy dose of academic vocabulary work, so specific titles you might recommend regarding academic vocabulary would also be welcome.
Thanks!

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Post by Sally Olsen » Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:18 am

Here are some good papers.

From “writing as product” to “writing as process”
1. Elbow, P. (1973). The process of writing—growing. In Writing without teachers (pp. 12-
42). New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Emig, J. (1977). Writing as a mode of learning. College Composition and
Communication, 28 (2), 122-128.
3. Britton, J. (1982). Writing to learn and learning to write. In G. Pradl (Ed.), Prospect and
retrospect: Selected essays of James Britton. (pp. 94-111). Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook.
4. Flower, L., & Hayes, J. (1981). A cognitive process theory of writing. College
Composition and Communication, 32, 365–87.
Social and cultural dimensions of writing
5. Reither, J. (1985). Writing and knowing: Toward redefining the writing process. College
English, 47, 620-628.
6. Devitt, A. (1993). Generalizing about genre: New conceptions of an old concept. College
Composition and Communication, 44, 573-586.
7. Herrington, A. & Moran, C. (2005). The idea of genre in theory and practice: An
overview of the work in genre in the fields of composition and rhetoric and new genre
studies. In A. Herrington & C. Morgan (Eds.). Genre across the curriculum. (pp. 1-13).
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.

Studies of Writing in Academic Settings
Approaches
8. Bazerman, C. & Prior, P. (2004). Introduction. In C. Bazerman & P. Prior (Eds.). What
writing does and how it does it: An introduction to analyzing texts and textual practices.
(pp. 1-3; 4; 6-8). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Elementary school
9. Bazerman, C. (2004). Speech acts, genres and activity systems: How texts organize
activity and people. In C. Bazerman & P. Prior (Eds.). What writing does and how it does
it: An introduction to analyzing texts and textual practices. (pp. 309-339). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
10. Ranker, J. (2008). Composing across multiple media: A case study of digital video
production in a fifth grade classroom. Written Communication, 25, 196-234.
Secondary school
11. Smagorinsky, P., Pettis, V., & Reed, P. (2004). High school students’ compositions of
ranch designs: Implications for academic and personal achievement. Written
Communication, 21, 386-418.
University
12. Freedman, A. (1997). Situating “genre” and situated genres: Understanding student
writing from a genre perspective. In W. Bishop & H. Ostrom (Eds.), Genres and writing:
Issues, arguments, alternatives (pp. 179-189). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
13. Beaufort, A. & Williams, J. A. (2005). Writing history: Informed or not by genre theory?
In A. Herrington & C. Morgan (Eds.). Genre across the curriculum. (pp. 44-64). Logan,
UT: Utah State University.
14. Carter, M. (2007). Ways of knowing, doing, and writing in the disciplines. College
Composition and Communication, 58, 385-418.


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Preparation for Course Project
15. Devitt, A. Reiff, M. J., & Bawarshi, A. (2004). Scenes of writing: Strategies for
composing with genres (pp. 192,198,221-222). New York: Pearson/Longman.

Directions for Further Research
16. Sommers, N. (2008). The call of research: A longitudinal view of writing development.
College Composition and Communication, 60, 152-164.

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Post by J.M.A. » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:43 pm

Thank you Sally!
Those are some interesting papers.

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Post by Sally Olsen » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:08 pm

Sorry, I missed posting the beginning. This is a course given by Natasha Artemeva at Carleton University this year. I took the course in 2000 and had many of the same papers. We also used "Academic Writing: An Introduction by
Janet Giltrow, Daniel Burgoyne , Richard Gooding, Marlene Sawatsky

We did the exercises in the book but used writing from our own fields to make it more relevant rather than the writing in the book.

I personally like anything by Beverly Deriwianka from Australia for learning and teaching to write.

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