Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Moragh Paxton
Homework
Do a bit of research on the various journals that interest you Talk to colleagues about the various journals Read Aims and Scope, List of editors, Guidelines for authors Browse titles of papers published & abstracts of last few editions. Does your material suit the journals agenda/identity? Read published papers in the journal to find out what the dominant issues and conventions are in the journal. Email the editor
Definitions of Genre
A particular type of art, writing, music etc, which has certain features that all examples of this type share.
Genres are not just forms. Genres are forms of life, ways of being. They are frames for social action. They are environments for learning. They are locations within which meaning is constructed. Genres shape the thoughts we form and the communications by which we interact. Genres are the familiar places we go to create intelligible communicative actions with each other and the guideposts we use to explore the familiar.
Bazerman cited in Swales 2004
A genre provides a writer with a way of formulating responses in certain circumstances and a reader a way of recognizing the kind of message being transmitted. A genre is a social construct that regularizes communication, interaction, and relations. i.e. invention, arrangement and style are discipline and situation specific, as are readers responses to texts
Bazerman Shaping Written Knowledge1988:62
Uncovering genres
Can you identify the genre? What enables you to do this? Can you name the discipline? Has the writer shifted the genre in any way?
Mentoring circles Developing critical Incorporating the in higher reflection as a part notion of education of teaching training recontextualisation in and teaching academic literacies practice research: the case of a SA vocational web design and development course
Introduction Mentoring circles (definition) Univ. of Adelaide mentoring circles Evaluation (survey & focus groups) Focus group Discussion and conclusion Introduction Rationale for critical reflection Developing the skill of critical reflection Conclusion Introduction Recontextualisation Methodology (ethnography) Reflecting on context, recontextualisation and academic literacies Conclusion
Education Journals
South African Perspectives in Ed Journal of Education SA Journal of Higher Education International Harvard Ed Review Studies in Higher Ed Teaching in Higher Education HERD Active Learning in Higher Education Across The Disciplines