Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing
The politics and Practices of Writing Development in UK Higher Education
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Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing
The politics and Practices of Writing Development in UK Higher Education
This volume addresses the most pressing issues in higher education today, such as inclusion, academic integrity, and generative AI.
This timely collection explores the politics and practices of academic writing development in UK higher education. The volume addresses issues of access, equity, and generative AI in the context of student writing, to consider what makes writing academic, why it matters, and how we can change the field for the better.
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein and David Mallows
Part I: Framing the politics and practices of academic writing
2 Academic writing as political
Julia Molinari
3 The turn to difference: doing academic writing and writing development differently
Amanda French
4 Multimodal and embodied approaches to writing for access and inclusion
Arlene Archer
Part II: Generative AI and academic writing
5 Progressive academic writing literacies: the constructive use of machine translation and generative AI as graduate competences
Mike Groves and Klaus Mundt
6 Student writing as ‘passing’ in a time of synthetic text
Helen Beetham
7 Generative AI, academic writing and learning differences: can ChatGPT scaffold writing development?
Adrian J. Wallbank
Part III: The practices of academic writing
8 Exploring writing pedagogy with subject lecturers
Gillian Lazar
9 Investigating feedback on students’ written work to understand subject lecturer expectations and support student writing
Lena Grannell
10 Creating time and space to write through social writing
Rowena Murray
Afterword
Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams
Index
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein and David Mallows
Part I: Framing the politics and practices of academic writing
2 Academic writing as political
Julia Molinari
3 The turn to difference: doing academic writing and writing development differently
Amanda French
4 Multimodal and embodied approaches to writing for access and inclusion
Arlene Archer
Part II: Generative AI and academic writing
5 Progressive academic writing literacies: the constructive use of machine translation and generative AI as graduate competences
Mike Groves and Klaus Mundt
6 Student writing as ‘passing’ in a time of synthetic text
Helen Beetham
7 Generative AI, academic writing and learning differences: can ChatGPT scaffold writing development?
Adrian J. Wallbank
Part III: The practices of academic writing
8 Exploring writing pedagogy with subject lecturers
Gillian Lazar
9 Investigating feedback on students’ written work to understand subject lecturer expectations and support student writing
Lena Grannell
10 Creating time and space to write through social writing
Rowena Murray
Afterword
Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams
Index