ERIC Number: EJ911725
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Feb
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1356-2517
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How Do We Play the Genre Game in Preparing Students at the Advanced Undergraduate Level for Research Writing?
Paxton, Moragh
Teaching in Higher Education, v16 n1 p53-64 Feb 2011
The study described in this article sets out to understand the barriers and affordances to successful completion of the short research thesis required in many advanced undergraduate courses or Honours programmes. In the study, the genre features of students' research projects and the criteria used to assess them were analysed and both students and supervisors were interviewed. The article focuses on one particular student from the case study and the findings provide in-depth insights into the complexities of genre acquisition in one particular department at a South African university, where writing and knowledge of the genre are often not taught, but must be acquired through a form of apprenticeship. The article concludes by raising some questions about how research genres can best be mediated in developmental contexts, where the teaching of writing may not be valued.
Descriptors: Educational Change, Case Studies, Undergraduate Study, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Literary Genres, Writing Research, Economics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; South Africa
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