- Title
- Students’ navigation of the uncharted territories of academic writing
- Creator
- Bharuthram, Sharita
- Creator
- McKenna, Sioux
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187373
- Identifier
- vital:44626
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2012.742651"
- Description
- Many students enter tertiary education unfamiliar with the ‘norms and conventions’ of their disciplines. Research into academic literacies has shown that in order to succeed in their studies, students are expected to conform to these norms and conventions, which are often unrecognized or seen as ‘common sense’ by lecturers. Students have to develop their own ‘map’ of their programme’s expectations in order to make sense of the seemingly mysterious practices they are expected to take on. This study, undertaken at a University of Technology in South Africa, details students’ perceptions of their writing difficulties and their attempts to navigate their way through various writing tasks. The findings reveal that students experience a range of difficulties and that the students often feel unsupported in their travails with academic writing.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (14 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Africa Education Review
- Relation
- Bharuthram, S. and McKenna, S., 2012. Students’ navigation of the uncharted territories of academic writing. Africa education review, 9(3), pp.581-594
- Relation
- Africa Education Review volume 9 number 3 p. 581 2012 1753-5921
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Taylor and Francis Online Terms and Conditions Statement (https://www.tandfonline.com/terms-and-conditions)
- Rights
- Open Access
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