Dear EATAW,
Here is a posting which might be of interest to teachers/students of
academic writing, or those students looking for guidance on academic
writing in general. Thanks,
Alex Baratta
VISUAL WRITING
Considering the fact that the academic essay continues to be widely
used as an assessment tool within education, there is a need for
students to develop their skills in this area. However, it is often
the case that students perceive instruction in academic writing, if it
is offered at all, as boring. This book addresses these two issues.
First, the book can be used by students themselves, even in the
absence of academic writing classes, as a self-help guide, from which
they can develop their knowledge of academic writing and subsequent
proficiency. Second, by discussing the components of academic writing
in terms?such as film?which are familiar to today?s generation,
students are enabled to relate to the material better and see what
might have been perceived as dull from a brand new perspective.
Visual learners in particular will enjoy the analogous link between
films and essays, and students today are arguably more visually
literate than previous generations, being exposed to visuals on a
daily basis through text message iconography, computer games and the
Internet. The visual instruction provided in turn helps to facilitate
mental visuals in students? minds, from which their knowledge of essay
writing can start to develop.
Full details are available at:
http://www.c-s-p.org/
Alex Baratta
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