Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing...

Composition Studies;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life, by Chris Thaiss and Terry Myers...Could we reach a sound definition of'academic writing'"? (v). The interesting nature of...1). As they theorized, perhaps "academic writing" is not "as stable, unified, and resistant...

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World Literature Today;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......discussion. You mention that even good academic writing limits its audience to insiders such...response to what you have labeled academic writing is negative. The are put off. The...conception of scholarly research and academic writing as an extended conversation, a conversation...

COLUMN: Academic writing never heard the phrase, 'simply said'

University Wire;  October 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ......me that, and boy, she didn't know academic writing very well, did she? This piece of...larger audience. I do not know how academic writing began. Long ago, perhaps, a coffee-swilli...and a half. The major drawback to academic writing is the time you need to read it. I...

Doing Academic Writing in Education: Connecting the Personal and the...

Journal of College Student Development;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Doing Academic Writing in Education: Connecting the Personal...Donald Murray's foreword to Doing Academic Writing in Education. Murray pointed to...a topic in the book). In Doing Academic Writing in Education, Janet C. Richards...

Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena.(Book review)

Radical Teacher;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...JUST BEING DIFFICULT? ACADEMIC WRITING IN THE PUBLIC ARENA Ed. Jonathan...the utter opacity of much academic writing. This concern has not been...contributors to Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena respond...

EGOS Colloquium: Participants' Impressions.(Brief Article)

Organization Studies;  January 1, 1999 ;     452 words ......2-day EMOT pre-conference workshop on academic writing for Ph.D. students proved to be more...a great opportunity to enhance our academic writing skills in an intensive as well as...they got to the wide experience in academic writing of professors Mary Jo and Finn. This...

Making Writing Visible at Duke University

Peer Review;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......undergraduates to take a seminar in "Academic Writing" in their first year and two "writing...reimagined first-year writing course. "Academic Writing" is now the only course taken by every...disciplines to highlight issues in academic writing, WID courses make use of writing to...

Beyond strategies: teacher beliefs and writing instruction in two primary...

Journal of Learning Disabilities;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......inclusion classrooms, two cases of writing instruction were investigated. Writing instruction was selected for these reasons...have greater latitude in planning writing instruction; and thus (c) teachers may re veal...

Preparing educators for online writing instruction: principles and...

Journal of College Reading and Learning;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......this guide focuses on online writing instruction, its principles can be adapted...Preparing Educators for Online Writing Instruction is divided into two sections: I.) Online Writing Instruction Program Development, and II...

Why academics have a hard time writing good grant proposals.

Journal of Research Administration;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......learn a new set of writing skills. Academic Writing For purposes of this discussion academic writing is defined as that style commonly...consider the contrasting perspectives of academic writing versus grant writing: Table 1 Academic...

Best Writing Practices for Graduate Students: Reducing the Discomfort of...

Kappa Delta Pi Record;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......students can successfully pursue academic writing for publication. In graduate circles, academic writing is presumed to be a solitary activity...reality is that students tend to find academic writing difficult and stressful, and they...

LOOKING AT CITATIONS: USING CORPORA IN ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC...

Language, Learning & Technology;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......texts is an essential feature of most academic writing, and we should expect courses in academic writing to sensitize students to the choices...to research a particular aspect of academic writing (citation practices, across the disciplines...

NEW DRIVER EDUCATION COURSE; THE MARCELLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHES "ACADEMIC...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  December 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ......test. That's the idea behind a new academic writing class introduced this year - a 10...are still schooled that way. But the academic writing course delivers the message that...or why concepts or principles work. Academic writing adds no time to the day's schedule...

Evaluating Web-sources: Internet Literacy and L2 Academic...

Technical Communication;  August 1, 2005 ;     145 words ...Evaluating Web-sources: Internet Literacy and L2 Academic Writing P. Stapleton. 2005. ELT journal 59: 135-143. Using...increasingly viable way to source information in academic writing. However, the Web is a fundamentally different...

A call for composition in Canada

University Affairs;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......raising the complicated issue of writing instruction on Canada's campuses with Sunny...encourage some seriousness about writing instruction in Canada but who are, by and large...ensure that their aims of credible writing instruction are met, even at their own institutions...