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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Building Employability Skills In Ict Master Coursework Curriculum, Fazel Naghdy, Alison Hayes, Emily Purser
Building Employability Skills In Ict Master Coursework Curriculum, Fazel Naghdy, Alison Hayes, Emily Purser
Emily R Purser
Development and delivery of a subject called Employability Skills and ICT Workplace Practice, targeted at international students taking Masters of Engineering Studies is reported. Almost all of the students are international with a desire to stay and work in Australia. In practice however, seeking professional employment in Australia has proved quite challenging for many of these students. A study conducted by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry identifies certain ‘soft skills’ in demand by employers. These include: initiative, communication, teamwork, technology, problem solving, self-management and planning. The learning objectives of the subject are designed to further develop and enhance …
Teaching Thesis Writing, Policy And Practice At An Australian University, Janice Skillen, Emily Purser
Teaching Thesis Writing, Policy And Practice At An Australian University, Janice Skillen, Emily Purser
Emily R Purser
As an indicator of serious engagement in an academic discourse, thesis writing enjoys universal recognition. While its importance in higher education is unquestioned, the need to teach students how to write a thesis (let alone what method to use) has been less generally accepted. In Australia, explicit instruction in thesis writing was rare until quite recently, but is now widespread and becoming almost mandatory. This paper briefly explains the shift and describes how the teaching of thesis writing is approached at the University of Wollongong. UoW’s major provider of academic skills instruction – Learning Development – supports student learning across …
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.
Towards Benchmarking Aall Practices, Bronwyn James, Joanne Dearlove, Heather Jamieson, Paul Moore, Alisa Percy, Emily Purser, Louise Rossetto, Janice Skillen
Towards Benchmarking Aall Practices, Bronwyn James, Joanne Dearlove, Heather Jamieson, Paul Moore, Alisa Percy, Emily Purser, Louise Rossetto, Janice Skillen
Emily R Purser
The aim of the project was to do some of the initial leg work that would enable AALL as a professional body to meaningfully benchmark the diverse range of practices currently employed by AALL units to support their students' development of core, disciplinary academic and professional skills and attributes.
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 …
Telling Stories: Text Analysis In A Museum, Emily Rose Purser
Telling Stories: Text Analysis In A Museum, Emily Rose Purser
Emily R Purser
Museum texts tell interesting stories, and their role in public education makes them quite important. The exhibition discussed in this paper gives a message that interests, but also concerns me, as a teacher of language, communication and cultural studies. It is a case of one culture telling stories about another, and in such a delicate arena there is much potential to cause offence. The exhibition in question is about peoples of the Pacific, and is in a major European museum of the world's indigenous cultures (BerlinDahlem). I had visited it to see how Australian cultures are represented in image and …
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 …
Realising The Potential Of Peer-To-Peer Learning: Taming A Mooc With Social Media, Emily Purser, Angela Towndrow, Ary Aranguiz
Realising The Potential Of Peer-To-Peer Learning: Taming A Mooc With Social Media, Emily Purser, Angela Towndrow, Ary Aranguiz
Emily R Purser
We report on peer-to-peer learning online, describing the role of cooperative, student managed groupings in successful learn-by-MOOC experiences. We found that to expand learners’ potential in digital culture, it helps to by-pass traditional notions and tools of online learning support, and embrace networked social media.