Academic Literacies & Writing at NMMU - 2016
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Academic Literacies & Writing at NMMU - 2016
- 1. Academic Literacies andWriting 2016 Gino Fransman Centre forTeaching Learning & Media Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University March 2016
- 3. 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 PartTwo 11 May 14h00-15h30 M218 Assessing Student Writing Part One TBA 14h00-15h30 TBA Assessing Student Writing PartTwo TBA 14h00-15h30 TBA Designing Writing Assignments Using BloomsTaxonomy 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
- 5. Challenge in 2016: a pressing student need and capacity issues
- 6. 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
- 7. We add support to institutional initiatives Ensuring we engage with all 1st Year students about academic writing and accessing writing support.
- 8. Student support Giving workshops on Orientation Workshops: Writing and Higher Education Introduction to Academic Writing Writing andTerminology: Getting the Language ofYour Discipline Introduction to Open Education Resources for Research Using Social Media for Academic and Career Profiling Writing Answers in Assignments and Exams Essay 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
- 10. Plagiarism and Referencing Watch plagiarism and referencing video AcademicWriting Plagiarism and Referencing RichardGalletly 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.
- 11. • Introductions to Open Educational Resources • Practical Uses of OER inWriting Support
- 12. Putting you in touch with resources ■ Academic Literacy Development Scoopit Site http://www.scoop.it/t/academic-literacy-development 21st Century Graduate Literacies Scoopit Site http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-graduate-literacies
- 13. Our Missionvale presence is growing ■ New premises ■ Twice a week office hours for direct student consultations
- 14. WHAT AREYOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT ALW IN 2016? We can set up an appointment to meet Gino.Fransman@nmmu.ac.za Twitter: @ginofransman Academic Literacies and Writing 2016 by Gino Fransman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.