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Academic Snobbery: Local Historians Need More Support [4 April], Ian C. Willis
Academic Snobbery: Local Historians Need More Support [4 April], Ian C. Willis
Ian Willis
Local history is one of the most popular forms of history in Australia. Yet there is a yawning gap between the enthusiastic amateur and the academic historian. While some academic historians engage with local history, sadly there is an entrenched snobbery from the academy. From the other side, the enthusiastic amateur is too wound up with a parochial approach to local history and often doesn’t see the bigger picture. If both sides can engage with each other, the result would be a better type of history practise and a greater contribution to the story of Australia.
Developing Academic Literacy In Context: A Cross-National Investigation, Janice Skillen, Emily Purser, Mary Deane, Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams
Developing Academic Literacy In Context: A Cross-National Investigation, Janice Skillen, Emily Purser, Mary Deane, Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams
Emily R Purser
Whilst the development of sophisticated literacy has always been a fundamental aim of higher education, the responsibility for its development has often been left to the individual student. Students are of course expected to exit tertiary education programs with significantly greater fluency in academic discourse, communicative competence and capacity for critical analysis than they enter with, but whether immersion is sufficient to ensure achievement of the desired level of development is a matter of debate (and this crucial debate is all too often ignored!). Many institutions of higher education, however, have long recognized the need for some form of explicit …
Academic Writing, Emily Purser
Stakeholders In Academic Integrity: Embedding Academic Literacies Into Three Professional Degree Programs, Isla Bowen, Bronwyn James, Lee Moerman, Paul Moore, Alisa Percy, Emily Purser, Margaret Wallace
Stakeholders In Academic Integrity: Embedding Academic Literacies Into Three Professional Degree Programs, Isla Bowen, Bronwyn James, Lee Moerman, Paul Moore, Alisa Percy, Emily Purser, Margaret Wallace
Emily R Purser
No abstract provided.
Developing Academic Literacy In Context, Emily Rose Purser, Jan Skillen, Mary Deane, James Donohue, Kelly Peake
Developing Academic Literacy In Context, Emily Rose Purser, Jan Skillen, Mary Deane, James Donohue, Kelly Peake
Emily R Purser
Where, when and how (indeed whether) academic writing should be taught to university students, who are not necessarily aiming to study ‹language› per se, has long been a concern in higher education. While students need to develop high level communication skills, in genres often quite specific to higher education, in order that their learning can be assessed, teaching them academic writing during the course of their disciplinary studies raises a number of pedagogical, organisational and research issues. This paper reports on a collaboration between a group of academics in different geographic and institutional locations, who share a dream of improving …
Developing Academic Literacy In Context: Trends In Australia, Emily Purser
Developing Academic Literacy In Context: Trends In Australia, Emily Purser
Emily R Purser
As the diversity of the student population grows in the tertiary education sector, and communications become more multi-modal, the nature of 'literacy' in university curricula both changes and needs more explicit development. We cannot assume that students have, or can develop in the given time, an appropriate level of academic literacy without writing being given careful attention. Various models for the development of students' academic language, including their writing, are in play and under scrutiny, but the broad trend seems to be away from extra-curricular attempts to address students' literacy development, and towards seeing this as a responsibility best shared …
Teaching Academic Literacy: Testing The Transferability Of Sound Pedagogic Practice, Emily Purser, Janice Skillen
Teaching Academic Literacy: Testing The Transferability Of Sound Pedagogic Practice, Emily Purser, Janice Skillen
Emily R Purser
No abstract provided.
Teaching Academic Writing At The University Of Wollongong, Emily Rose Purser
Teaching Academic Writing At The University Of Wollongong, Emily Rose Purser
Emily R Purser
Initiatives for the development of literacy at the University of Wollongong are growing within an Australian national commitment to increase overall tertiary enrollment, provide access to students from less-advantaged groups, and enroll more international students. While this essay describes successful programs within the Academic Services Division at Wollongong built to support student literacy, especially academic writing, it primarily emphasizes the work of a problemsolving task force on English language proficiency aimed at building consensus for a collaborative, cross-disciplinary paradigm of literacy growth that moves away from the traditional idea of separable services. The essay profiles a new initiative in the …