ERIC ED414822: Policy and Practice of Tertiary Literacy. Selected Proceedings of the First National Conference on Tertiary Literacy: Research and Practice, Volume 1 (1st, Melbourne, Australia, March 14-16, 1996). PDF
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DOCUMENT RESUME HE 030 802 ED 414 822 AUTHOR Golebiowski, Zofia, Ed. Policy and Practice of Tertiary Literacy. Selected TITLE Proceedings of the First National Conference on Tertiary Literacy: Research and Practice, Volume 1 (1st, Melbourne Australia, March 14-16, 1996). Victoria Univ. of Tech., Melbourne (Australia). INSTITUTION ISBN-1-875338-86-1 ISBN PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 314p.; For Volume 2, see HE 030 803. Victoria University of Technology, P.O. Box 144 28, MCMC AVAILABLE FROM Melbourne, Victoria 8001, Australia ($25). Collected Works Proceedings (021) PUB TYPE EDRS PRICE MF01/PC13 Plus Postage. Academic Ability; Case Studies; *Communication Skills; DESCRIPTORS Communicative Competence (Languages); Computer Literacy; *Diversity (Student); Educational Policy; Educational Practices; *Educational Strategies; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Graduate Students; Higher Education; Instructional Development; Integrated Curriculum; Interdisciplinary Approach; *Literacy; Minority Groups; Remedial Programs; Rhetoric; Speech Skills; Student Characteristics; Teaching Methods; Undergraduate Students; Writing (Composition); *Writing Difficulties; Writing ) Strategies IDENTIFIERS *Australia ABSTRACT This selection of papers from the First Conference on Tertiary Literacy, which examined the role of literacy as a foundation for knowledge acquisition and dissemination that influences the academic success of tertiary students, presents a number of case studies of policy and practice in Australian universities. Keynote addresses included: "Tertiary Language, Literacy and Communication Policies" (R.Baldauf, Jr.); "Institutional Practices in Promoting Tertiary Literacy" (L.Parker); "Some Questions About Integrated Communication Skills" (M.Garner) and "Which Thesis Did You Read?" (B.Kamler and T.Threadgold). Papers include: "The (1) Complexities of Tertiary Literacy" (D.Absalom); (2) Mediating Cognition and Culture: A Pilot Study of the Literacy and Academic Communication Skills of First Year Commerce Students" (C.Baskin and others); "How Did We Get a (3) Literacy Problem in Research Articles?" (R.Brown); "Comparing the (4) Citation Choices of Experienced Academic Writers and First Year Students" "Expectations of Academic Writing at (J.Buckingham and M.Nevile); (5) Australian Universities" (D.Bush); "Teaching Difficulties Associated with (6) Variability in Student Working Memory Capacity" (P.Casey); "Peaks and (7) Pitfalls of a Tertiary Communication Policy" (J.Catterall and R.Martins); (8) "The Teaching of Communication Skills in a Health Science Faculty" "The Development of Information Literacy in Undergraduate (M.Clugston); (9) Programs" (M.Coombs and J.Houghton); (10) "Critical Practice and (11) "Literacy in the Undergraduate Students" (H.Farrell and others); Disciplines: Giving Academics a Language to Talk About Language" "Tertiary Literacy: Case Study Research into the Literacy (G.Ferguson); (12) Policies, Definitions and Practices of Four Disciplines within a University" +++++ ED414822 Has Multi-page SFR--- Level =l +++++ (13) "Academic Discourse on the Internet" (J.Garton); (M.Fiocco); (14) "Changing Literacy: Changing Teaching and Learning" (C.Ingleton); (15) "Free to Write: "Social Identities and Literacy Practices" (B.James); (16) (17) "Abrasions: Dilemmas of Doing a On-Line Class Discussions" (R.Kivela); Critical Literacy Pedagogy within/against the Academy" (L.Noone and "Expectations of Tertiary Literacy: The Attitudes and P.Cartwright); (18) Experiences of Lecturers and their LOTE Background Students" (A.Pearce and "A Profile of the Novice Collaborative Research Experience" H.Borland); (19) (C.Riddell); and (20) "Top-Level Structuring as a Basis for the Development of Tertiary Literacy" (K.Smith and D.Edwards). Also included are two poster presentations, "Tertiary Literacy in a Non-Traditional Institution" (J. Skillen) and "Lecturers' Perceptions of Student Literacy: A Survey Conducted (R. Woodward-Kron and A. van der Wal). A at the University of Newcastle" summary keynote address is titled "What Will Count as Tertiary Literacy in (T. Threadgold and others). (Contains approximately 300 the Year 2000?" references.) 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Edited by PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Zofia Golebiowski Victoria University of Technology TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Victoria University of Technology Melbourne Australia s.. AVAIMBILE Policy and Practice of Tertiary Literacy Selected Proceedings of the First National Conference on Tertiary Literacy: Research and Practice Volume 1 edited by Zofia Golebiowski Victoria University of Technology Melbourne Australia First published 1997 by Victoria University of Technology PO Box 144 28 MCMC Melbourne Victoria 8001 Australia Copies may be ordered from Victoria University of Technology, c/- Amanda Pearce, Student Learning Unit, telephone: 03 9365 2136; email: [email protected] Copyright 0 Victoria University of Technology and the individual authors. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or reproduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Data National Conference on Tertiary Literacy (1st: 1996 : Melbourne, Vic.). Proceedings of the First National Conference on Tertiary Literacy : research and practice. ISBN 1 875338 86 1 1). (v. ISBN 1 875338 87 X (v. 2) Congresses. 2. English language - Rhetoric - Congresses. 3. Academic writing 1. Literacy Congresses. 4. Interdisciplinary approach in education - Congresses. I. Golebiowski, Zofia Maria. II. Borland, Helen Elizabeth. III. Victoria University of Technology. IV. Title. 3022.2244088375 Design and typesetting by Phil McCluskey Cover design by Paul Show, Victoria University of Technology Printed by Imprenta Pty. Ltd. Contents VOLUME 1: POLICY & PRACTICE OF TERTIARY LITERACY Introduction ix Zosia Golebiowski Acknowledgments xi KEYNOTE ADDRESSES: Tertiary Language, Literacy and Communication Policies: Needs and Practice Richard Baldauf Jr 1 Institutional Practices in Promoting Tertiary Literacy: The Development and Implementation of a University-wide Policy for Enhancing Students' Communication Skills Lesley H Parker 20 Some Questions about Integrated Communication Skills Programmes Mark Garner 37 Which Thesis Did You Read? Barbara Kam ler & Terry Threadgold 42 PAPERS: The Complexities of Tertiary Literacy Doug Absalom 59 Mediating Cognition and Culture: A Pilot Study of the Literacy and Academic Communication Skills of First Year Commerce Students Colin Baskin, Michelle Barker & Yvonne Farr-Wharton 66 How Did We Get a Literacy Problem in Research Articles? Robert Brown 82 Comparing the Citation Choices of Experienced Academic Writers and First Year Students Joanna Buckingham & Maurice Nevile 96 Expectations of Academic Writing at Australian Universities: Work in Progress Denise Bush 108 iii Teaching Difficulties Associated with Variability in Student Working Memory Capacity 117 Paul Casey Peaks and Pitfalls of a Tertiary Communication Policy 126 Janice Catterall & Rosalind Martins The Teaching of Communication Skills in a Health Science Faculty 135 Marie Clugston The Development of Information Literacy in Undergraduate Programs 145 Merolyn Coombs & Jan Houghton Critical Practice and Undergraduate Students 150 Helen Farrell, Bronwyn James, Erst Carmichael & Michele Scoufis Literacy in the Disciplines: Giving Academics a Language to Talk about Language 161 Gillian Ferguson Tertiary Literacy: Case Study Research into the Literacy Policies, Definitions and Practices of Four Disciplines within a University 167 Maria Fiocco Academic Discourse on the Internet 182 James Garton Changing Literacy: Changing Teaching and Learning 192 Christine Ingleton Social Identities and Literacy Practices 201 Bronwyn James Free to Write: On-Line Class Discussions 219 Ruth J. Kivela Abrasions: Dilemmas of Doing a Critical Literacy Pedagogy within/against the Academy 233 Lynne Noone & Patricia Cartwright Expectations of Tertiary Literacy: the Attitudes and Experiences of Lecturers and their LOTE Background Students 245 Amanda Pearce & Helen Borland A Profile of the Novice Collaborative Research Experience 258 Christine Riddell Top-Level Strncturing as a Basis for the Development of Tertiary Literacy 265 Kevin Smith & Debra Edwards iv POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Meeting the Challenge: Tertiary Literacy in a Non-Traditional Institution 279 Jan Ski lien Lecturers' Perceptions of Student Literacy: A Survey Conducted at the University of Newcastle 282 Robyn Woodward-Kron & Anita van der Wal SUMMARY KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Tertiary Literacy Conference Summary: What will Count as Tertiary Literacy in the Year 2000? 291 Terry Threadgold, Doug Absalom & Zosia Golebiowski VOLUME 2: ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND CULTURES Acknowledgments ix Introduction Zosia Golebiowski KEYNOTE ADDRESSES: Disciplinary and Cultural Perspectives on Student Literacy Ian Reid 1 Communicating Within Cultures, Communicating Across Cultures, Communicating Between Cultures Anthony Liddicoat 12 COLLOQUIUM: INTERCULTURAL VARIATION IN ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION Introduction Andy Kirkpatrick 24 Culture and Difference Lesley Farrell 27 Cultural Differences in Academic Essay Orientations Gillian Ferguson 32 Texts of the Culture and Texts of the Discourse Community Anthony Liddicoat 38 The Structure of Academic Prose: A Comparative Study Zosia Golebiowski 42 PAPERS: Providing Scaffolding for Theses Preparation in Computer and Mathematical Sciences 48 Peter Cerone & Greta Caruso Never Say 'I'? The Writer's Voice in Essays in the Humanities Kate Chanock 54 Making Sense: Cross-Cultural Variation in the Organization of Academic Texts by Taiwanese and Australian Undergraduate Students Judith Couchman 64 The Teaching of Academic Discourse: A Collaboration between Discipline Lecturers and Academic Support Staff at RMIT Marietta Elliott 77 vi Promoting Language Skills through Collaboration between Content Lecturers and Language Specialists 88 Rhonda Hallett Between Logic and Rhetoric: Advance and Complication in the Teaching of Reading Comprehension 103 Dirk den Hartog Developing Critical Literacy for Nursing and Health Science: Philosophy, Policy, Theory for Practice, and Research for a Subject-integrated Approach 111 Mary Harvie, Robyn Moroney & Anne Smith EAP: Making Risk-taking in Academic Writing Less Risky for International Students 120 Bernard Hird Literacy, Culture and Difference: Feedback on Student Writing as Discursive Practice 127 Margaret Keech Writing Expository Essays in Chinese. Chinese or Western Influences? 140 Andy Kirkpatrick The Development of Communication Skills in Undergraduate Health Professional Education: Using Standardised Patients and Peer Assessment 157 Rick Ladyshewsky & Evangeline Gotjamanos An Applied Linguist Reads Engineering 164 Rosalind Lawe Davies Language Characteristics of the Examination Essays by Dental Students 179 Rosalind Lawe Davies Cross-Disciplinary and Discipline-Specific Discourse Features in Student Academic Writing 198 Susan Kaldor, Michael Herriman & Judith Rochecouste "You only have to humiliate yourself": Discursive Practices in a First-Year 'Practical Legal Skills' Course 209 Rod Maclean Learning to Manage? Managing to Learn? Reading Frames in Business Education 221 Ian Reid & Denise Mulligan Another Country: Non-Aboriginal Tertiary Students' Perceptions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples 231 Josephine Ryan vii
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