Dinda's Blog

As in my previous article (https://ogcilias.blogspot.com/2020/02/education-about-writing-scientific.html?m=1) I discussed the procedures and importance of writing journal articles at the tertiary level. After sharing and discussing it with my group in class about their article, here I will review it in my own language.  Not much different from my blog, a friend of mine Discusses "Writing Centers in Higher Education as Academic Performance".    In his blog the number of US universities trying to help their students write at the tertiary level and develop writing in all curriculum-based writing centers.    This suggests that the writing center at a business college might improve students' writing abilities at the top of the value distribution if there are students motivated enough to visit the center.    Therefore, writing centers must try to reach all students (not only those who are naturally motivated) and strong incentives to do so must be put ...

This paper challenges the broad view that writing is somehow a part of a more serious aspect of university life - conducting research and teaching students. It argues that universities are ABOUT writing which special types of academic literacy are at the guts of everything we do: important for building knowledge, educating students and negotiating professional academic careers. Seeing literacy as embedded in individual disciplinary beliefs and practices, instead of generic skills that students fail to develop at school, helps explain the difficulties students and academics have in controlling the conventions of disciplinary discourse. In the end, and in a vital sense, we are what we write, and that we have to understand the unique ways our disciplines accommodate colleagues and submit arguments, because through language academics and students conceptualize their subjects and debate their claims persuasively. . The title of this lecture encompasses a somewhat daunting scope but off...