Making inter-disciplinary spaces for talk about and change in student writing and literacy development

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dc.contributor.authorClarence, Sherran
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-24T14:09:33Z
dc.date.available2013-04-24T14:09:33Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses the role of a writing centre in creating spaces for talk about and change in disciplinary writing pedagogy. It asks how collaborative partnerships between disciplinary academics and Writing Centre practitioners might be established and nurtured sustainably. Drawing on insights from two collaborations with academics in political studies and law, the article asserts that writing centre practitioners play a valuable role in talking about and changing the way academic writing and literacy is taught in the disciplines. This is shown by working consistently with the understanding that critical reading, thinking and writing are literacy acts rather than generic skills and must therefore be learned and practiced in the disciplines. By supporting disciplinary academics in re-examining course outcomes, materials and assessments, and moving away from a ‘skills approach’ to writing, it is shown that building discipline-specific spaces for writing and literacy development is possible through these collaborative partnerships.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationClarence, J. (2012). Making inter-disciplinary spaces for talk about and change in student writing and literacy development. Teaching in Higher Education, 17(2): 127-137en_US
dc.identifier.issn1356-2517
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/578
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author post-print version of an article published by Taylor & Francis.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2011.611876
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectAcademic literaciesen_US
dc.subjectCollaborative partnerships
dc.subjectDisciplinary writing
dc.subjectStudent writing development
dc.titleMaking inter-disciplinary spaces for talk about and change in student writing and literacy developmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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