Browsing Unit for Academic Literacy by Subject "Academic writing"

Browsing Unit for Academic Literacy by Subject "Academic writing"

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  • Can academic writing transform epistemicide to emancipation? 
    Eybers, Oscar Oliver (Common Ground Research Networks, 2022-11)
    Coercive Management Behavior (CMB) exists in universities as it does in cooperate entities. Consequently, CMB constrains research productivity and pedagogic commitments and can induce epistemicide. In response to CMB, this ...
  • Creating “transdisciplinary spaces” for a real-world scenario : a practical teaching collaboration 
    Fouche, Ilse; Corbett, A.D. (Thea); Immelman, Susan (South African Association for Language Teaching, 2017-06)
    A lack of transfer of academic literacy competencies was identified by academic literacy and Statistics lecturers involved in an extended programme course. This paper reports on one attempt at a workable collaborative ...
  • The effectiveness of genre-based approaches in teaching academic writing : subject-specific versus cross-disciplinary emphases 
    Carstens, Adelia (University of Pretoria, 2009)
    The main purpose of the research was to investigate the effectiveness of genre-based approaches in teaching academic writing. The study was motivated by the researcher's perceptions about university students' difficulty ...
  • A framework for course design in academic writing for tertiary education 
    Butler, Herman Gustav (University of Pretoria, 2007-09-11)
    Academic writing is generally regarded as the most important communication medium through which people in the tertiary academic context choose to communicate their ideas. It is also well known that it is sometimes an arduous ...
  • A multidirectional model for tertiary-level disciplinary writing 
    Carstens, Adelia (South African Asociation for Language Teaching, 2008)
    Genre approaches to academic writing are still enjoying wide support among pedagogues and applied linguists in the UK, US and Australia. However, genrebased pedagogies have been widely criticised for their explicit teaching ...
  • Non-curricular postgraduate writing interventions at South African universities 
    Vivian, Brenda; Fourie, Reinhardt (South African Association for Language Teaching, 2016)
    Formalised postgraduate writing support centres are a relatively new phenomenon at the majority of South African universities and have not yet been researched intensively. This article, which forms part of a mandated ...
  • Preferred genres and rhetorical modes in the humanities and social sciences 
    Carstens, Adelia (Unisa Press, 2008)
    The article reports on a research project aimed at identifying salient written genres and text types/rhetorical modes in the Faculty of Humanities at a large university in Gauteng, South Africa. The main purpose of the ...
  • A social justice approach to providing academic writing support 
    Rambiritch, Avasha (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Faculty of Education, 2018-04)
    The value of the support provided in a writing centre is well documented today in international literature. However, an area largely untouched has been how to implement social justice principles in the context of a writing ...
  • Student perceptions on writing support 
    Rambiritch, Avasha (South African Association for Language Teaching, 2015)
    The value of peer-tutoring has been highlighted in a number of studies. But often the value of such support is lost on, especially, first year students, who perceive such support as an indication that they may be 'lacking' ...