Academic Literacies & Writing at NMMU - 2016

Academic Literacies and Writing 2016

Gino FransmanCentre for Teaching Learning & MediaNelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityMarch 2016

www.jisc.ac.uk

Teaching Development Workshop Date Time Venue

Reading Journals and Annotated Bibliographies

31 March 14h00-15h30 M218

Using Peer Feedback to Improve Students’ Writing

28 April 14h00-15h30 M218

Teaching Students to Reference and Avoid Plagiarism Part One

10 May 14h00-15h30 M218

Teaching Students to Reference and Avoid Plagiarism Part Two

11 May 14h00-15h30 M218

Assessing Student Writing Part One

TBA 14h00-15h30 TBA

Assessing Student Writing Part Two

TBA 14h00-15h30 TBA

Designing Writing Assignments Using Blooms Taxonomy

TBA 14h00-15h30 TBA

Additional recommended workshops for those interested in teaching academic literacies to their students:

SoTLC Topic Three: Writing to Learn and Learning to Write

SoTLC Topic Four: Academic Literacies through Multilingualism

Challenge in 2016:a pressing student need and capacity issues

Draft Reviews■As always, students are encouraged to use the draft

review facility on offer at http://forms.nmmu.ac.za/writingcentre/registration/

■Our respondents are limited in 2016

■Respondents are assigned to Faculties and specific groups in 2016

■Lecturers are encouraged to direct students to our portal: www.writing.nmmu.ac.za

We add support to institutional initiatives

Ensuring we engage with all 1st Year students about academic writing and accessing writing support.

Student support

Giving workshops onOrientation Workshops: Writing and Higher EducationIntroduction to Academic WritingWriting and Terminology: Getting the Language of Your DisciplineIntroduction to Open Education Resources for ResearchUsing Social Media for Academic and Career ProfilingWriting Answers in Assignments and ExamsEssay Assignment Preparation

Mentoring a team of writing respondents who responding to student drafts either face-to-face – individually or in groups – or online.

Open Educational Resource (OER) training for discipline-specific research

CV Writing goes online

Plagiarism and ReferencingWatch

plagiarism and referencing video

Academic WritingPlagiarism and Referencing

Richard Galletly

Take Notes!

This video is available as part of a collection of shared open educational resources for the FAVOR project and available in languagebox.ac.uk/profile/1239.

• Introductions to Open Educational Resources• Practical Uses of OER in Writing Support

Putting you in touch with resources■Academic Literacy Development Scoopit Site

http://www.scoop.it/t/academic-literacy-development

21st Century Graduate Literacies Scoopit Sitehttp://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-graduate-literacies

Our Missionvale presence is growing

■New premises■Twice a week office hours for direct student

consultations

WHAT ARE YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT ALW IN 2016?

We can set up an appointment to meet

Gino.Fransman@nmmu.ac.zaTwitter: @ginofransman

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