1. Foregrounding Background in Academic Learning

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Information about the Authors ix
5. Foreword xiii
6. Introduction xv
7. A. Interacting with the Institution
8. 1. Foregrounding Background in Academic Learning 5
9. 2. What do Students Really Say in Their Essays? Towards a descriptive framework for analysing student writing 17
10. 3. The Student from Overseas and the British University: Finding a way to succeed 37
11. 4. On Not Disturbing “Our Group Peace”: The plight of the visiting researcher 61
12. 5. Writing Assignments on a PGCE (Secondary) Course: Two case studies 81
13. 6. Academic Literacies and Learning in Higher Education: Constructing knowledge through texts and experience 103
14. B. Mystery and Transparency in Academic Literacies
15. 7. Whose ‘Common Sense’? Essayist literacy and the institutional practice of mystery 127
16. 8. Academic Literacy and the Discourse of Transparency 149
17. 9. Inventing Academic Literacy: An American perspective 161
18. 10. Agency and Subjectivity in Student Writing 171
19. 11. Academic Literacies 193
20. Index 229