1997b: Academic Communication across Disciplines and Cultures (Volume 2)

Selected Proceedings of the First National Conference on Tertiary Literacy: Research and Practice (Volume 2), Victoria University of Technology 14-16 March, 1996

Abstract

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Introduction … ix

Disciplinary and Cultural Perspectives on Student Literacy: Ian Reid … 1

Communicating within Cultures, Communicating across Cultures, Communicating between Cultures: Anthony Liddicoat … 12

COLLOQUIUM: INTERCULTURAL VARIATION IN ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION

Introduction: Andy Kirkpatrick … 24

Culture and Difference: Lesley Farrell … 27

Cultural Differences in Academic Essay Orientations: Gillian Ferguson … 32

Texts of the Culture and Texts of the Discourse Community: Anthony Liddicoat … 38

The Structure of Academic Prose: A Comparative Study: Zosia Golebiowski … 42

PAPERS

Providing Scaffolding for Theses Preparation in Computer and Mathematical Sciences: Peter Cerone and Greta Caruso … 48

Never Say 'I'? The Writer's Voice in Essays in the Humanities: Kate Chanock … 54

Making Sense: Cross-Cultural Variation in the Organization of Academic Texts by Taiwanese and Australian Undergraduate Students: Judith Couchman … 64

The Teaching of Academic Discourse: A Collaboration between Discipline Lecturers and Academic Support Staff at RMIT: Marietta Elliott … 77

Promoting Language Skills through Collaboration between Content Lecturers and Language Specialists: Rhonda Hallett … 88

Between Logic and Rhetoric: Advance and Complication in the Teaching of Reading Comprehension: Dirk den Hartog … 103

Developing Critical Literacy for Nursing and Health Science: Philosophy, Policy, Theory for Practice, and Research for a Subject-integrated Approach: Mary Harvie, Robyn Moroney and Anne Smith … 111

EAP: Making Risk-taking in Academic Writing Less Risky for International Students: Bernard Hird … 120

Literacy, Culture and Difference: Feedback on Student Writing as Discursive Practice: Margaret Keech … 127

Writing Expository Essays in Chinese. Chinese or Western Influences? Andy Kirkpatrick … 140

The Development of Communication Skills In Undergraduate Health Professional Education: Using Standardised Patients and Peer Assessment: Rick Ladyshewsky and Evangeline· Gotjamanos … 157

An Applied Linguist Reads Engineering: Rosalind Lawe Davies … 164

Language Characteristics of the Examination Essays by Dental Students: Rosalind Lawe Davies … 179

Cross-Disciplinary and Discipline Specific Discourse Features in Student Academic Writing: Susan Kaldor, Michael Herriman and Judith Rochecouste … 198

"You only have to humiliate yourself": Discursive Practices in a First-Year 'Practical Legal Skills’ Course: Rod Maclean … 209

Learning to Manage? Managing to Learn? Reading Frames in Business Education: Ian Reid and Denise Mulligan … 221

Another Country: Non-Aboriginal Tertiary Students' Perceptions of Aboriginal and Torres—Strait Islander Peoples: Josephine Ryan … 231

The Report and the Essay: Are We Muddling Science and Engineering Undergraduates by Asking Them to Write in Two Different Genres? Heather Sllyn-Roberts … 240

Cultural Differences Within "Western" and "Eastern" Education: Maria Spizzica … 248

Advanced Learners' Literacy in Japanese Literature: Masae Takeuchi and Etsuko Tanaka … 258

Research Management: Discipline Specific Discourse and Supervisor/Researcher Interactions: Linda Wilkins and Fred J. Symons … 267

Native Speakers' Attitudes towards Sales Letters and Implications for Teaching Modern Standard Chinese: Zhu Yunxia … 272

Literacy Needs for Engineering Numeracy: Keiko Yasukawa … 284

Notes on Contributors … 294