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Academic Literacies and Writing 2016
Gino FransmanCentre for Teaching Learning & MediaNelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityMarch 2016
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
[email protected]: @ginofransman
Academic Literacies and Writing 2016 by Gino Fransman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
