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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 9
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The Discipline and Craft of Academic Writing: Building Writing Capacity in Institutions of Higher Education
Janks, Hilary
Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, v3 n1 Article 25 2012
This article offers a first-person account of an academic writing workshop from the perspective of a participant. What is significant is that the workshop combines traditional and creative writing approaches to the teaching of academic writing. This provides new insights into a process of academic writing that can have a significant effect on the quality of the writing and a reader's engagement with it.
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Capacity Building, Writing Instruction, Higher Education, Workshops, Creative Writing, Writing Strategies, Writing Teachers, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Prewriting, Course Descriptions, Revision (Written Composition), Writing Processes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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