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Writing Program Design For Esl Writers, Kacie M. Kiser
Writing Program Design For Esl Writers, Kacie M. Kiser
English Theses & Dissertations
Research and scholarship in the field of second-language writing have suggested that English as second language students (ESLs) require different modes of instruction than their native English speaking peers within the composition classroom (Matsuda, 1996; Silva, 1994). Yet ESL students are commonly marginalized in institutions' writing programs due to several commonplace beliefs shared by administrators that ESL students can be taught according to the same standards as mainstream students. Therefore, writing program administrators and instructors often do not have specific knowledge of ESL writing issues and, thus, do not know how to pedagogically accommodate these students or design a program …
Reflections On Academic Writing And Publication For Doctoral Students And Supervisors: Reconciling Authorial Voice And Performativity, Teresa Marchant, Naomi Anastasi, Peter Miller
Reflections On Academic Writing And Publication For Doctoral Students And Supervisors: Reconciling Authorial Voice And Performativity, Teresa Marchant, Naomi Anastasi, Peter Miller
Peter Miller
The current research context in Australia and other countries such as the United Kingdom (UK) and New Zealand (NZ) is ‘performativity’. This provides opportunities for and obstacles to research higher degree (RHD) students developing their authorial voice. This paper illustrates how to facilitate improved academic writing and increased publishing from doctorates. Using mixed methods, it draws on interviews with eight doctoral students about writing under supervision, observations from a six year project to publish seven books, and six journal articles published from doctoral students’ work. Students experienced supervision as being ‘written over’ by their supervisors, in contrast to the constructive …