ACADEMIC WRITING

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ACADEMIC WRITING

• Some guides for masters level students
• in media communication

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THEORY PRACTICE

• Academic conventions expectations
• Learning the disciplines in Media Studies
• Genres products
• Writing as process
• Writing a dissertation

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examples

• Daniel Chandler
• Gradpapers
• Self help books
• Guide 1
• Guide 2
• Academic writing BIBSYS

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JOINING A DISCOURSE COMUNITY

• Modes of academic writing
• The masters dissertation
• Learning the genre
• Changes in writing instruction
• Computers compostion

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WHERE AM I?

• Term papers
• Dissertation outlines
• Thesis statement
• Dissertation development
• Types of research

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COMPOSITION STUDIES

• Background
• Conventions /product
• Developmental/ process
• Communication technologies
• Post-process

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examples

• Computers Composition
• Purdue University
• J. of Second Language Writing Online
• Univ of Minnesota
• Dartmouth

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PROCESS PRODUCT

• The position of schema
• The role of the writer
• The learning process
• Paradigms perspectives
• Participants
• Resources

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examples

• Questia
• Student resources

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WRITING AS ACTIVITY

• Recursive
• Individual
• Collaborative
• Activities
• Writing today

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WARNINGS

• Services
• Plagiarism

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examples

• Term papers
• Dissertations
• Avoiding plagiarism

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WRITING RESOURCES

• Centres
• Journals
• Books
• OWLs
• Web

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WRITING RESOURCES

• Centres
• Journals
• Books
• OWLs
• Web

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examples

• Center for Writing Studies IL
• Self help process
• Univ of Victoria
• Ohio State
• Univ of Madison-Wisconsin
• Writing the research paper

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examples

• Proposal guidelines
• Proposal workshop
• Online grammar handbook
• Style manuals
• Purdue workshops
• Handbook
• Scholarly research academic writing

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examples

• Guide to writing theses
• Another guide!
• Social science thesis writing
• Humanities
• Links to academic writing centres
• Writing tips for theses
• Academic Info site

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examples

• KAIROS
• Cross journal publication
• Writing new media