Teaching Academic Writing: Toolkit For Higher Education, A

Description:
This is a 'toolkit' designed to help higher education lecturers and tutors teach writing to their students. Containing a range of teaching strategies, the book offers both practical activities to help students develop their writing abilities and guidelines to help lecturers and tutors think in more depth about the assessment tasks they set and the feedback they give to students. The authors explore a wide variety of text types from essays and reflective diaries to research projects and laboratory reports. The book draws on recent research in the fields of academic literacy, second language learning, and linguistics. It is grounded in recent developments such as the increasing diversity of the student body, the use of the Internet, electronic tuition, and issues related to distance learning in an era of increasing globalisation.

Review:
'With a rich and diverse supply of exercises and suggestions to incorporate into teaching and assessment, this book will be useful for academic staff in all disciplines.' - Shan Wareing, Royal Holloway, University of London 'This book is a gem, filled with practical ideas for helping students learn to write in a discipline. Tutors will get a fresh sense of the possibilities for teaching and learning, through understanding how students make sense of a field's theories and concepts through writing.' - David R. Russell, Iowa State University