Academic Literacy And the Languages of Change

This book is an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. The contributors, who are all engaged in academic literacy work at a South African university, use the theoreti

List of Figures

ix

Acknowledgements

x

Preface

xi

Professor Njabulo S. Ndebele

Introduction: The politics of place in academic literacy work

1

(29)

Lucia Thesen

Ermien van Pletzen

Discourses of English and literacy in a Western Cape township school

30

(23)

Rochelle Kapp

`Use your own words' -- impossible exhortations

53

(14)

Stella Clark

`I want to write about the Dalai Lama . . .': Literacies in transition

67

(17)

Bongi Bangeni

Rochelle Kapp

Intertextual analysis: a research tool for uncovering the writer's emerging meanings

84

(20)

Moragh Paxton

A body of reading: making `visible' the reading experiences of first-year medical students

104

(26)

Ermien van Pletzen

Change as additive: harnessing students' multimodal semiotic resources in an Engineering curriculum

130

(21)

Arlene Archer

Who owns this image? Word, image and authority in the lecture

151

(29)

Lucia Thesen

Identity, power and discourse: the socio-political self-representations of successful `black' students

180

(27)

Gideon Nomdo

Index

207

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Academic Literacy And the Languages of Change

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