Academic Literacies

Books, articles and links on academic literacies Angèlil-Carter, S. (2000). Stolen language?: Plagiarism in Writing. Harlow, England: Pearson Education.

Andrews, R. 'The End of the Essay?' Teaching in Higher Education, 8, 1: 117-128.
Originally paper presented at 'Genres and Discourses' conference, Oslo 2001.

Ballinger, G. (2002). 'Bridging the Gap Between A Level and Degree. Some Observations on Managing the Transitional Stage in the Study of English Literature.' Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 2: 99-109.

Bartholomae, D. (1985). 'Inventing the University' in Rose, M. ed. When A Writer Can't Write. New York: Guilford, 1985.

Bazerman, C., Little, J., Bethel, L., Chavkin, T., Fouquette, D. and and Garufis, J. (2005). Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriuculum. Parlor Press/WAC Clearinghouse.
History of WAC, WAC and writing-to-learn theory, relations WAC and rhetoric of science/WID, programme types, best practice. Superb resource. At
http://wac.colostate.edu/books/bazerman_wac/

Bean, J. (1996). Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Becher, T. (1989). Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines. Milton Keynes: SRHE/OUP.

Bizzell, P. (1993). Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1994). Academic Discourse. Polity Press.

Canagarajah, A.S. (2002). A Geopolitics of Academic Writing. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Casanave, C.P. (2002). Writing Games: Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Chiseri-Strater, E. (1991). Academic Literacies: The Public and Private Discourse of University Students. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.

Creme, P. (2000). 'The 'Personal' in University Writing: Uses of Reflective Learning Journals' in Stierer, B. and Lea, M. eds.

Creme, P. and Hunt, C. (2002). 'Creative Participation in the Essay Writing Process'. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 1: 145-66.

Dysthe, O. (2001). 'The Mutual Challenge of Writing Research and the Teaching of Writing'. Keynote address at the inaugural conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Groningen.
http://www.uib.no/plf/ansatte/olga/mutual.rtf

Ganobscik Williams, L. (2006). Teaching Academic Writing in UK Higher Education: Theories, Practices and Models. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Geisler, C. (1992). 'Exploring Academic Literacy: an Experiment in Composing'. College Composition and Communication, 43,1: 39-54.

Geisler, C. (1994). Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise: Reading, Writing and Knowing in Academic Philosophy. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Giltrow, J. (2002). Academic Writing: Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines (Third Edition). Broadview Press.

Giltrow, J. (2002). Academic Reading: Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines (Second Edition). Broadview Press.

Giltrow, J., Burgoyne, D., Gooding, R. and Sawatsky, M. (2005) Academic Writing: An Introduction. Broadview Press.

Gosden, H. (1995). 'Success in Research Article Writing and Revision: a Social-Constructionist Perspective.' English for Specific Purposes, 14,1: 37-57.

Herrington, A. and Moran, C. (1992). Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. New York: MLA.

Horner, B. and Lu, Min-Zhan. (1999). Representing the 'Other': Basic Writers and the Teaching of Basic Writing. Urbana, Il: NCTE.

Hounsell, D. (2005). 'Contrasting Conceptions of Essay-Writing' in The Experience of Learning Marton, F., Hounsell, D. and Entwistle, N. eds.
http://www.tla.ed.ac.uk/resources/ExperienceOfLearning/EoL7.pdf

Hyland, K. (2000). Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing. Longman.

Ivanic, R. (1998). Writing and Identity: The Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Kam, A. and Meinama, T. (2005). 'Teaching Academic Writing to International Students in an Interdisciplinary Writing Context: A Pedagogical Rough Guide'. Across the Disciplines.
http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/lds/kam_meinema.cfm

Kruiningen, J. (1998). 'What is a Paper? Divergent Views of Faculty on Genres in Academic Writng and the (Un)Clarity in Writing Assignments in the Teaching of Writing'. Paper presented at the EARLI SIG Writing Conference, Poitiers, July 2-4 1998.

Lea, M. (1994). '"I thought I could write until I came here": Student writing in higher education' in Graddol, D. and Thomas, S. eds. Language in a Changing Europe. 64-72.

Lea, M. and Street, B. (2000). 'Student Writing and Staff Feedback in Higher Education: an Academic Literacies Approach' in Stierer, B. and Lea, M eds.

Lillis, T. (1997). 'New Voices in Academia? The Regulative Nature of Academic Writing Conventions'. Language in Education, 11,3: 182-199.

Lillis, Theresa M. (2001). Student Writing: Access, Regulation,Desire. London: Routledge.

Marsh, M. (2004). 'Difference and Dialogue: the Voices of some English A level Students. A Study of the Development of Academic Literacy at AS/A Level in the Context of Widening Participation. Project Report, University College London.

Moore Howard, Rebecca. (1999). Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators. Ablex Publishing.

Parker, J. (2002). A New Disciplinarity: Communities of Knowledge, Learning and Practice. Teaching in Higher Education, 7,4: 373-386.

Peck Macdonald, S. (1994). Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Southern Illinois University Press.

Pratt, M.L. (1991). 'Arts of the Contact Zone'. Profession '91, 33-40.
Reprinted in Zamel and Spack 'Negotiating Academic Literacies'.

Prior, P. (1998). Writing/Disciplinarity. A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Jones, C, Turner, J. and Street, B. eds. (1999). Student Writing in the University: Cultural and Epistemological Issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Pardoe, S. (2000). 'A Question of Attribution: the Indeterminacy of 'Learning from Experience' in Stierer, B. and Lea, M. eds.

Riddle, M. & Mitchel, S. (1996). 'The Undergraduate Dissertation: Improving the Quality of Argument'. Paper presented at the European Writing Conference, Barcelona, Spain, October 23-25, 1996. Available as pdf file at SIG writing Publications Archive.

Van Rensburg, W. (2004). 'Writing partnerships: academic writing and service-learning' in L. Allal & J. Dolz eds. , Proceedings Writing 2004 CD [EARLI SIG writing Geneva) . Adcom Production. Available as pdf at EARLI SIG publication archives.

Rimmershaw, R. (1993). 'Students’ changing conceptions of academic writing' in G. Eigler & Th. Jechle eds. (1993). Writing: Current Trends in European Research (pp. 245–255). Freiburg: HochschulVerlag. Available as pdf on the SIG writing publications archive at
http://sig-writing.publication-archive.com/start

Scollon, R. and Scollon, S. B. K. (1981). Narrative, Literacy and Face in Interethnic Communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Scott, M. (1997). 'The 'Pedagogic Relation' in Accounts of Student Writers' Needs and Difficulties' in Gibbs, G. Improving Student Learning: Theory and Practice. Oxford Brookes University/OCSLD.

Scott, M. (1999). 'Agency and Subjectivity in Student Writing' in Jones, C., Turner, J. and Street, B. eds.

Scott, M. (2000). 'Student, Critic and Literary Text: a Discusion of 'Critical Thinking' in a Student Essay'. Teaching in Higher Education, 5,3: 277-288.

Scott, M. (2000). Writing in Postgraduate Teacher Training: a Question of Identity' in Stierer, B. and Lea, M. eds.

Shaughnessy, M. (1979). Errors and Expectations : A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. Oxford University Press.

Smith, K. (2002). 'School to University: Sunlit Steps or Stumbling in the Dark?' Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 2: 90-98.

Stierer, B. and Lea, M. (2000). Student Writing in Higher Education: New Contexts. Open University Press: Buckingham/Society for Research into Higher Education.

Street, Brian. (1996). 'Academic Literacies' in Alternative Ways of Knowing: Literacies, Numeracies, Sciences. ed. Baker, D, Clay, J. and Fox, C. Falmer Press (pp 101-134).
Swales, John. (1998) Other Floors, Other Voices: A Textography of a Small University Building. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Thesen, L and van Pletzen, Ermien. (2006). Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change. Continuum. Case studies of student literacy at a South African university during a time of social, economic, political and institutional change.

Thompson, P. ed. (1999). Academic Writing Development in Higher Education: Perspectives, Explorations and Approaches. Reading: Centre for Applied Language Studies.

*Ventola, E. and Mauranen, A. eds. (1996). Academic Writing: Intercultural and Textual Issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Wiliams, B. ed (2007). Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education. Utah State University Press.

Womack, P. (1993). 'What are essays for?' English in Education, 27,2: 42-59.

Zamel, V. and Spack, R. eds. (1998). Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning Across Languages and Cultures. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Mina Shaughnessy, Mike Rose, Min-zhan Lu 'From Silence to Words', Peter Elbow, mary Louise Pratt 'Arts of the Contact Zone', Lisa Delpit 'The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse', Widdowson 'The Ownership of English', Pennycook 'Borrowing Others' Words'.

Histories of Academic Writing

Russell, D.R. (1990). 'Writing Across the Curriculum in Historical Perspective: Toward a Social Interpretation'. College English, 52: 52-73.

Russel, D. R. (1991). Writing in the Academic Disciplines 1870-1990: a Curricular History. Carnondale, Il: Southern Illinois University Press.

School > University Transitions

Harklau, L. (2001). 'From high school to college: Student perspectives on literacy practices'. Journal of Literacy Research. Online here.

Scalone, P. and Street, B. (2006). 'Academic Language Development Programme (Widening Participation)' in Leung, C. and Jenkins, J. eds. Reconfiguring Europe: the Contribution of Applied Linguistics, British Studies in Applied Linguistics Volume 20, BAAL/Equinox.
For a brief introduction to the Academic Language Development Programme at King's College London, see here.

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Online

Improving Argumentative Skills,
Sally Mitchell, Richard Andrews, Paul Prior (research project)

http://www.improving-argumentative-skills.net/

Writing Matters. A Report on Student Writing in Universities in the UK.
The Royal Literary Fund.

Writing Matters examines the difficulties many students face in writing effectively and proposes a range of measures to address these. The report argues that much greater attention should be paid to helping students adjust to the demands of writing at university and that writing development is a key factor for progress in the HE sector.
http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/research.cfm

Ganobcsik-Williams, Lisa. (2004). A Report on the Teaching of Writing in Higher Education. Reports esearch on teaching writing in universities: attitudes, methods and ways forward. Influenced the above report. Available from the above RLF link.

McMahon, Katharine. (2004). What’s Going On with Student Writing? A Study Commissioned by the Royal Literary Fund.
A study of academic writing skills that students need in higher education in the UK. Based on the premise that many students 'struggle with assignments in the first year of university'. Includes material on school/university transition and chapters on the teaching of writing in primary and secondary schools.
Available from the above RLF link.
Main concern, however, is ‘academic writing standards’ and says very little about new media, literacy practices and almost nothing about multilingualism.

Across the Disciplines (online journal)
http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/lds/

Professional and Research Associations

EATAW http://www.eataw.org/

WDHE http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/index.cfm?wpid=4349

EARLI SIG Writing http://www.sig-writing.org/
and SIG Writing Publications Archive at
http://sig-writing.publication-archive.com/start

COMP FAQs Wiki http://comppile.tamucc.edu/wiki/CompFAQs/Home

WPA http://www.wpacouncil.org/

WAC Clearinghouse http://wac.colostate.edu/index.cfm