Teaching academic writing in UK higher education : theories, practices, and models / edited by Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-237) and index.

General introduction : responding to the call for academic writing theory and pedagogy / Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams -- 1. New contexts, new challenges : the teaching of writing in UK higher education / Roz Ivanic and Mary R. Lea -- 2. The point of writing : is student writing in higher education developed or merely assessed? / Robert Catt and Gerry Gregory -- 3. Moving towards an 'academic literacies' pedagogy : dialogues of participation / Theresa M. Lillis -- 4. A critical narrative of the evolution of a UK/US university writing programme / Alice Tomic -- 5. Exploiting the potential of writing for educational change at Queen Mary, University of London / Sally Mitchell and Alan Evison -- 6. Teaching writing within a discipline : the speak-write project / Tory Young and Simon Avery -- 7. Building an academic writing programme from within a discipline / Aled Ganobcsik-Williams -- 8. Engineering writing : replacing 'writing classes' with a 'writing imperative' / Alison Ahearn -- 9. If not rhetoric and composition, then what? : teaching teachers to teach writing / Rowena Murray -- 10. Teaching academic writing from the 'centre' in Australian universities / Jan Skillen -- 11. Sentimental education : first-year writing as compulsory ritual in US colleges and universities / John Heyda -- 12. Learning from - not duplicating - US composition theory and practice / Joan A. Mullin -- 13. Skills, access, and 'basic writing' : a community college case study from the United States / Mary Jane Curry -- 14. Peering across the pond : the role of students in developing other students' writing in the US and UK / Bonnie Devet, Susan Orr, Margo Blythman and Celia Bishop.

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