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Study Guide References in APA Style.
REFERENCES
BALLARD, B. & CLANCHY, J. (1988) Literacy in the university: an anthropological approach, in: G. TAYLOR, B. BALLARD, V. BEASLEY, H. BOCH, J. CLANCHY & P. NIGHTINGALE (Eds) Literacy by Degrees (Milton Keynes, Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press).
BAZERMAN, C. (1988) Shaping Written Knowledge: the genre and activity [...]
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Study Guide Discussion
Although the two perspectives employed in this research originate from two different disciplines with their own theoretical bases and methodologies, their combination yielded a valuable confirmation that the writing process students experience–informed as it is by their conceptions of the purpose of writing–will have a profound impact on the textual patterns and the meanings they [...]
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Study Guide Relationship between Process and Product
Table I displays the empirical relationship between the variables representing the student’s process of writing the essay as described by the phenomenographic analysis, and the product as described by the linguistic analysis. The table clearly shows that students who had a multistructural conception and who had adopted a surface approach had [...]
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Study Guide Representation of the Essay’s Meaning
To probe the essays further, we turned our attention away from the textual devices used to organise and present the meanings. In our second analysis of the texts, we focused on the ideational metafunction (Halliday, 1985), in order to explore the meanings themselves. By ideational metafunction, we refer to meaning in [...]
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Study Guide Introduction
In the practice of teaching writing to tertiary students, the traditional approach has been process-oriented with its emphasis on teaching students how they should go about the task of preparing their written assignments. For the most part, this approach has not been research based, and could be seen as offering the apprentice writer prescriptive advice [...]
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Study Guide Representation of the Essay’s Structure
Fundamental to an exploration of how a message is structured is the concept of ‘theme’ and ‘new’. The theme refers to the point of departure of the message, for example in the clause ‘teaching is a challenging occupation’, the point of departure is ‘teaching’. The message is about teaching. The new [...]
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Study Guide Product of Essay Writing
Because the data for linguistic analysis were so unwieldy, with a total of some 40,000 words in the corpus of texts, the aim of the early readings of the essays was to identify which of a wide range of linguistic analyses would yield the most revealing thumbnail sketches of the essays. [...]
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Study Guide Approaches to Essay Writing
Students who adopted a surface approach conceived of the essay as multistructural and approached the writing of the essay with an intention to reproduce a series of points in a coherent way. They focused their reading on listing key points related to the essay topic, and focused their writing on producing a [...]
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Study Guide Conceptions of Essay Writing
Students identified as having a multistructural conception of an essay conceived of the essay as being composed of a collection of points, each related to the topic, but not contributing to a whole view of the topic. Isolated facts gained from reading were used to support predetermined opinions, as demonstrated by this [...]
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Study Guide Process of Writing the Essay
The students’ experience of writing the essays was studied by asking them questions in a semi-structured interview about the way they conceived of an essay in sociology and about the way they approached the writing of the essay. The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed and analysed phenomenographically. The aim of the [...]
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