Sounds interesting, Alex, and as a complementary approach, you might like to look at 2007, Rao, V., Chanock, K., & Krishnan, L., A Visual Guide to Essay Writing: how to develop and communicate argument, an online publication available free of charge at http://www.aall.org.au/teaching-and-learning-resources. This is the website of the Australian professional Association for Academic Language and Learning, so please, people, while you're there, have a look around, note that we have a conference in November next year, a refereed journal, and more.....
Cheers,
Kate
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From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing - discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alexander Baratta
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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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