Student Writing: Access, Regulation, Desire

Student Writingexplores: Access to higher education and to its representational resources-the language and literary resources available for making meaning Regulation of meaning making in academic literacy practices Desire for participation in higher education and for choices over ways of meaning in academic writing.

List of figures and tables

ix

Preface: why write this book?

x

Acknowledgements

xii

Introduction: focus and research background

1

(1)

What is this book about?

1

(1)

Who is this book for?

2

(2)

The research on which this book is based

4

(8)

Participation, interests and knowledge making

12

(1)

How this book is organised

13

(3)

Language, literacy and access to higher education

16

(17)

Introduction

16

(1)

Access to higher education

17

(3)

Student writing in higher education

20

(3)

The model of language in official discourse

23

(2)

Significant shifts in research on student writing

25

(6)

Challenging the 'textual bias'

31

(2)

Student writing as social practice

33

(20)

Introduction

33

(1)

Language and literacy as discourse practices

34

(7)

Dialogicality, addressivity and meaning making

41

(7)

The making of texts, the making of self(ves)

48

(2)

A heuristic for exploring student writing

50

(3)

Restricted access to a privileged practice

53

(25)

Introduction

53

(1)

The gap between tutors' and students' understandings of academic writing conventions

54

(4)

The enactment of the institutional practice of mystery

58

(14)

Student-writers' desire for dialogue

72

(3)

Conclusion

75

(3)

The regulation of authoring

78

(29)

Introduction

78

(1)

How essayist literacy conventions regulate

78

(3)

Texts and their producers

81

(1)

The regulation of student authoring

82

(8)

Regulation, language, identity

90

(14)

Conclusion

104

(3)

Essayist literacy, gender and desire

107

(25)

Introduction

107

(1)

Desires for participation in HE

108

(5)

Desires for meaning making

113

(14)

Desires for learning

127

(1)

Conclusion

128

(4)

Dialogues of participation

132

(28)

Introduction

132

(1)

Talking writers into essayist literacy

133

(5)

Talking to 'populate with intention'

138

(4)

Talking to make language visible

142

(5)

Talking back: a 'long conversation' with Mary

147

(11)

Conclusion

158

(2)

Re-thinking student writing in higher education

160

(21)

Introduction

160

(1)

Contributing to Academic Literacies research in higher education

160

(3)

A framework for exploring pedagogical approaches to student academic writing

163

(4)

Principles, choices, questions

167

(6)

Appendices

Appendix 1: Overview of student-writers

173

(2)

Appendix 2: Details of UK examinations, qualifications and courses

175

(1)

Appendix 3: Data collection and transcription

176

(3)

Appendix 4: Feedback and talkback sheets

179

(2)

References

181

(11)

Index

192

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