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DAVID R. RUSSELL English Department of Iowa State University, U. S. A. I was fortunate to attend, as a visitor from the U. S. , the first European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) conference in 2001 at Groningen. I was struck by the similarities in the challenges higher education faces on both sides of the Atlantic in terms of developing students' academic writing, and students' learning through writing. It is indeed an international 'problem. ' But I was equally struck by the profound differences in responding to these challenges - among - tions, institutions, disciplines, and even within disciplines. The essays in this - traordinary volume address a growing demand for help with academic writing, on the part of students and academic staff alike. And they do so in ways that bring fresh approaches, not only to Europeans, who have only recently begun to study academic writing, but also to researchers and academic staff in the U. S. , where we have a c- tury-old tradition of attention to the problem - but are much in need of these fresh approaches. Academic writing has become a 'problem' in higher education - all around the world - because higher education sits smack between two contradictory pressures. On one end, far more students (and far more diverse students) come streaming into higher education - bringing in a far greater diversity of linguistic resources (often interpreted as 'standards are falling,' as Frank, Haacke & Tente point out).
List of contents
Teaching Academic Writing in European Higher Education: An Introduction.- Text and Writer.- Getting Started: Academic Writing in the First Year of a University Education.- Text Types, Textual Consciousness and Academic Writing Ability.- Teaching Academic Writing to International Students: Individual Tutoring as a Supplement to Workshops.- The Genre in Focus, not the Writer: Using Model Examples in Large-Class Workshops.- A Good Paper Makes a Case: Teaching Academic Writing the Macro-Toulmin Way.- Rethinking Feedback: Asymmetry in Disguise.- The (IM)Possibilities in Teaching University Writing in the Anglo-American Tradition When Dealing with Continential Student Writers.- Helping Doctoral Students to Finish Their Theses.- Teaching Academic Writing in Context.- Centres for Writing & Reading-Bridging the Gap between University and School Education.- Writing at Norwegian Universities in an International Perspective.- Contacts-Conflicts-Cooperation.- An Analysis of the Discourse of Study Support at the London Institute.- Creating a Basis for a Faculty-Oriented Writing Programme.- Implementation Issues for Study Support.
About the author
Gerd Bräuer, geboren 1960, ist promovierter Literaturwissenschaftler und seit 2001 Associate Professor of German Studies an der Emory University (Atlanta, USA). 2001 Auszeichnung mit einem Hauptpreis für sein Konzept des schulischen Schreib- und Lesezentrums im Transatlantischen Ideenwettbewerb USable der Körber-Stiftung. DAAD-Gastprofessur an der PH Freiburg und Aufbau eines Schreibzentrums sowie einer Schreibberaterausbildung. Mehrere entsprechende Fachpublikationen.
Summary
DAVID R. RUSSELL English Department of Iowa State University, U. S. A. I was fortunate to attend, as a visitor from the U. S. , the first European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) conference in 2001 at Groningen. I was struck by the similarities in the challenges higher education faces on both sides of the Atlantic in terms of developing students’ academic writing, and students’ learning through writing. It is indeed an international ‘problem. ’ But I was equally struck by the profound differences in responding to these challenges – among - tions, institutions, disciplines, and even within disciplines. The essays in this - traordinary volume address a growing demand for help with academic writing, on the part of students and academic staff alike. And they do so in ways that bring fresh approaches, not only to Europeans, who have only recently begun to study academic writing, but also to researchers and academic staff in the U. S. , where we have a c- tury-old tradition of attention to the problem – but are much in need of these fresh approaches. Academic writing has become a ‘problem’ in higher education – all around the world – because higher education sits smack between two contradictory pressures. On one end, far more students (and far more diverse students) come streaming into higher education – bringing in a far greater diversity of linguistic resources (often interpreted as ‘standards are falling,’ as Frank, Haacke & Tente point out).
