Carol

>>> Lotte Rienecker <[log in to unmask]> 2/1/2010 10:53 AM >>>
Dear all,

I have done just what you describe in the net-based tool Scribo - Guide to Research Questions and Literature Search, 2009, Lotte Rienecker & Tina Pipa (and in a corresponding textbook which unfortunately is not in an English version). The commented examples of student's research questions, choice of concepts, theories and methods and their literature search strategies, are from Danish universities, but there is a full English translation so that the resource may be used as a set of model examples by foreign students in Denmark. Some of you may remember an early version of the guide from my keynote presentation in Athens, EATAW 2005, on this. Much has happened with this tool since. You can view the introduction to the resource at the site
www.scribo.dk

and if any of you would like to see the full resource, please mail me and I will send you a password to a free access for instructors.

Most Danish universities subscribe to an intranet license, and some 50.000 Danish students have access to the resource. I would be very interested to have some international response/cooperation.
Best,
Lotte

Lotte Rienecker
Writing Centre Director, MSc. Psych.
Academic Writing Centre
University of Copenhagen
Department of Humanities,
Njalsgade 125
DK-2300 S
004535329127/private mobile 004538714824
www.akademiskskrivecenter.hum.ku.dk

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Fra: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing - discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] På vegne af Alex Barthel
Sendt: 30. januar 2010 22:34
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Emne: Re: writing textbooks using authentic student essays/texts?

dear Mary Jane and others,
not specifically 'texts containing authentic student writing', but a whole bunch of other resources can be found on the site of the Association for Academic Language & Learning (AALL) at: http://www.aall.org.au/teaching.
Anyone can also join the AALL discussion forum and ask questions, start discussions, etc. It's free: http://aall.org.au/forum We're always happy to share, but many of you already know this.
cheers
alex
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From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing - discussions [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Curry, Mary Jane [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, 31 January 2010 08:27
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Subject: Re: writing textbooks using authentic student essays/texts?

Many thanks, John! So as not to clutter up everyone's inboxes, I will be replying individually to those kind enough to reply, and then send a summary email to the list. Thank you!

Mary Jane Curry
Associate Professor, Language Education
Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education & Human Development PO Box 270425, Dewey Hall 1-160G University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627
585.273.5934
FAX 585.473.7598
www.rochester.edu/warner/faculty

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From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing - discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Hilsdon
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:19 PM
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Subject: Re: writing textbooks using authentic student essays/texts?

Hi Mary Jane

The Writing for Assignments E-library (WrAssE) is not a text book but an online resource to encourage staff and students in higher education to explore how we judge student writing in terms of some of the key functions it fulfils, and qualities it displays. Go to www.learningdevelopment.plymouth.ac.uk and click on the little fish!

We hope students will be able to learn from WrAssE and be empowered by seeing authentic examples of successful written work by their peers - along with comments from academic about what 'works' in the students'
texts. Academic staff have found WrAssE a stimulating way to consider their own assessment criteria - and to bring to the surface some of the more taken-for-granted judgements they make about students work.

We worked on this at the University of Plymouth in the UK for some years and launched the resource as a prototype last year (with help from a nationally funded project called 'LearnHigher' - see www.learnhigher.ac.uk). WrAssE is far from perfect but we are keen to hear from people who have comments to make about it - and even more keen to discuss the possibility of partnerships with others to build upon and improve our work in this area.

With best wishes

John

John Hilsdon
Head of Learning Development
Room 103, 21 Portland Villas
University of Plymouth
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01752 587750

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From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing - discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Curry, Mary Jane
Sent: 29 January 2010 20:51
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Subject: writing textbooks using authentic student essays/texts?

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know if there are academic writing textbooks or guides that use authentic student essays from a range of disciplines as models, samples, exemplars, etc? If so I would be very grateful to know about them.

Thanks!

Mary Jane Curry
Associate Professor, Language Education
Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education & Human Development PO Box 270425, Dewey Hall 1-160G University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627
585.273.5934
FAX 585.473.7598
www.rochester.edu/warner/faculty

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