Embedding Academic Literacies through Growing Student and Staff Communities
Abstract
In the UK, HE practical writing support has not kept pace with advances in our understanding of how students learn to write in their disciplines or greater comprehension of the nature of these discourses they are acquiring. Current institutional provision can be still be characterized as fragmented offering generic, deficit focused, skills-based instruction, despite such approaches being theoretically discredited. One alternative means to develop academic literacies in more inclusive and nuanced ways is to embed this work at a disciplinary level; while long recommended this model is unusual in the UK. This paper reviews approaches to embedding academic literacies work and reports on our attempts to embed writing development work within a social science department through an extended action research project which aimed to increase student mastery of academic literacies within one department. We focused on building opportunities for engagement using Writing Exemplars, Retreats and Writing Circles. Key features of our work are identified that appear transferable and may further facilitate successful interdisciplinary collaborations.
- Journal
- Journal of Academic Writing
- Published
- 2020-12-18
- DOI
- 10.18552/joaw.v10i1.625
- CompPile
- Search in CompPile ↗
- Open Access
- OA PDF Diamond
- Topics
- Export
- BibTeX RIS
Citation Context
Cited by in this index (0)
No articles in this index cite this work.
Cites in this index (0)
No references match articles in this index.
Related Articles
-
Assessing Writing Apr 2026Developing students’ feedback literacy in disciplinary academic writing through generative artificial intelligence ↗Jianda Liu; Zihao Shi; Wanqing Li
-
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Mar 2026Kaitlin J. Coyle; Derek G. Ross
-
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly Feb 2026Heidi Schultz
-
Written Communication Feb 2026Jonathan Marine; Jason Grant; Paul Rogers
-
Journal of Writing Research Feb 2026Elizabeth Velasquez; Christa Teston