Writing in the Disciplines―Building Supportive Cultures for Student Writing in Uk Higher Education

For academics in different subjects and those working in writing development in the UK, Clughen and Hardy (Spanish and art and design, Nottingham Trent U., UK) bring together a group of UK writing and education specialists and academics in various subjects who present nine essays on the teaching and learning of academic writing by undergraduate and graduate students in the UK. They view writing as a sociocultural practice, contend that students need supportive environments to explore how writing is meaningful for them, and provide examples of various ways writing support practitioners and lecturers in different disciplines are responding. After an introduction on debates in literacy in UK universities, embedding writing in the disciplines, and approaches to writing support, they discuss the construction of writing cultures at school, student and staff expectations and experiences, different forms used across the disciplines and the epistemologies and discourses students need to succeed, writing groups, the impact of Web 2.0 and mobile technologies, using dialogic lecture analysis, the use of story cards as a way into scientific writing, how nontraditional writing genres are used in art and design, and social writing. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)