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Academic Writing in a Multi-lingual and Multi-disciplinary Context
Finnegan, Damian; Kauppinen, Asko; Wärnsby, Anna (2011) The Role of the Student Experience in Shaping Academic Writing Development in Higher Education, European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing (EATAW), 29th June – 1st July 2011 University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland	other

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Damian Finnegan (damian.finnegan@mah.se) Asko Kauppinen (asko.kauppinen@mah.se) Anna Wärnsby (anna.warnsby@mah.se) Academic Writing in a Multi-lingual and Multidisciplinary Context One crucial challenge of academic writing concerns the increasing heterogenisation of student populations. In many writing classes, we now find “any combination of native-born, international, refugee, permanent resident, and naturalized students,” exhibiting considerable linguistic diversity and multiple levels of English proficiency (Preto-Bay and Hansen, 2006; see also Hall, 2009). At the same time, interest towards academic writing in European higher education is growing, yet resources for teaching do not reflect this. Moreover, the wider student base demands practical application from their writing courses, not theoretical knowledge of language skills (see, for example, Anderson 1983, 2009 on procedural vs. declarative knowledge). To show how these problems can be addressed, we discuss the course Academic Writing in English offered at Malmö University, Sweden, which currently enrolls approximately 300 students per year. The course design is explicitly based on the general model of information processing, which assumes that “complex behavior builds on simple processes” (McLaughlin and Heredia, 1996, p. 213). The focus of all learning activities is on acquisition of procedural knowledge geared towards comprehension and production. One distinctive feature of this course is the very tight integration of electronic resources and other teaching material. This provides student populations various types of continuous feedback and highly individualised learning paths. In this paper, we present and evaluate empirical data pertaining to students’ experience of the content, structure and resources in this course. We also discuss the preliminary results obtained through tests administered before, during and after the course. References Anderson, J. R. 2009. Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications. 7th edition. New York: Worth Publishers. Anderson, J. R. 1983. The Architecture of Cognition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Hall, Jonathan. 2009. “WAC/WID in the Next America: Redefining Professional Identity in the Age of the Multilingual Majority.” The WAC Journal. Vol. 20, November. 33-49. McLaughlin, B. and Hereda, J. L. C. 1996. “Information-processing Approaches to Research on Second Language Acquisition and Use.” In Ritchie, W. C. and Bhatia, T. K. (eds.), Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. San Diego: Academic Press, 213-228. Preto-Bay, Ana Maria and Kristine Hansen. 2006. “Preparing for the Tipping Point: Designing Writing Programs to Meet the Needs of the Changing Population.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, Vol. 30, Nos. 1-2, Fall. 37-57.

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Antropologen som författare

Hemer, Oscar
Journal article in Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift;01 : Universitetsforlaget (2012) scientific
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Arbetarlitteratur

Nilsson, Magnus : Studentlitteratur (2006)
För mer info se: http://www.studentlitteratur.se/o.o.i.s?id=2474&artnr=32185-01&csid=66&mp=4918 BOOK

Swedish abstract: Boken är ett historiskt och teoretiskt översiktsverk om svensk arebtarlitteratur.

Arbetarlitteraturen och kulturarvet

Nilsson, Magnus
Journal article in Ivar Lo : Ivar Lo-sällskapet (2009) ARTICLE

Swedish abstract: Artikeln handlar om hur svensk arbetarlitteratur kan betraktas i förhållande till kulturarvet.
Arbetarlitteratur, idenititet, ideologi

Nilsson, Magnus
Journal article in Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap;2006:3-4 (2007) peer-reviewed
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Swedish abstract: Artikeln behandlar begreppet och fenomenet arbetarlitteratur från en vardagsspråkfilosofisk och ideologikritisk utgångspunkt.

Articulating the use qualities of digital designs

Löwgren, Jonas
Book chapter in Fishwick, P. (ed.) Aesthetic computing : Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2006) BOOK CHAPTER

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