Success in Writing: Theory and Practice

2017 ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
Colin Peacock
1988 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
J.F.T.M. van Dijck

Writing instruction in American colleges has changed significantly over the last five years. Until the 1980s, the field of composition has been sustained by attention to the written product. Many researchers, however, have moved their focus to the writing process and its rhetorical context. The implications of this paradigmshift have become apparent in the practice of writing programs: many innovative writing programs base their freshman composition courses on 'writing-as-a-process' and 'writing-to-learn' principles. At the University of California, San Diego two writing programs have adopted this approach and they have developed effective composition courses. Although the American college-curriculum is different, these recent developments in writing theory and practice could be quite relevant for Dutch post-secondary education.


1988 ◽  
Vol 1988 (34) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Greenberg

LITERA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Putra Manuaba

This study aims to identify creative writing aspects and formulate a model for the development of creative writing competence. It was a qualitative study involving literature students from four universities in Surabaya. The data were collected through in-depth interviews. The findings show that only few students have writing experience. The learning model in the campus is one important aspect that can motivate students to write. An ideal model for the development of creative writing competence is one that integrates a variety of aspects that can develop creative writing. Some important aspects include (1) a creative writing course inliterature learning as a compulsory course at universities, (2) theory and practice (practice being more dominant than theory) for literature students, (3) attempts to make lecturers good at writing theory and practice, (4) reading enrichment in quality literary works, and (5) use of creative processes from high quality authors as inspiring part of creative work writing.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian V. Street

<p>In this paper I attempt to locate the study of academic writing in the broader field of Literacies as Social Practice. I begin with a brief summary of recent theories of Literacies as Social Practice and then recount some of the ethnographic methods for studying these. I then discuss the application of these concepts to academic writing in Higher education, including university, not just school and support for teachers as well as students. This involves notions of ‘academic language and literacies’ and I cite a paper on this entitled ‘modelling for diversity’ based on a research project in London, including issues of how English language is addressed, and the complexity involved in the diversity currently evident (Leung &amp; Street, 2014). I conclude by drawing out some of the implications of this work for both theory and practice.<strong> </strong></p>


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