‘The place is suffering': enabling dialogue between students' discourses and academic literacy conventions in engineering.

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dc.contributor.authorArcher, Arleneen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-29T08:39:10Z
dc.date.available2014-07-29T08:39:10Z
dc.date.issued2007en_ZA
dc.descriptionThis is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication of the article:The place is suffering': enabling dialogue between students' discourses and academic literacy conventions in engineering. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in PUBLICATION, English for Specific Purposes, VOL 27, ISSUE3, 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2007.10.002.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractStudents need access to the disciplinary practices of engineering, but at the same time, these practices need to transform to the realities of the changing global environment and the profession. The site of this research is an engineering foundation programme for less advantaged students in South Africa and is thus perhaps well-positioned to look afresh at some mainstream disciplinary practices. Rather than students conforming to a narrow sense of appropriate behaviour, a dialogue needs to be set up between what students bring and what the institution expects, in order to evolve innovative spaces within the curriculum. This paper explores what these spaces can offer and looks at how students negotiate complex identity positions in their writing, specifically in terms of agency and affect. It emphasizes that both educators and engineers need to learn to draw on own knowledges and experiences rather than imposing knowledge in a top-down process.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationArcher, A. (2007). ‘The place is suffering': enabling dialogue between students' discourses and academic literacy conventions in engineering. <i>English for Specific Purposes</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3349en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationArcher, Arlene "‘The place is suffering': enabling dialogue between students' discourses and academic literacy conventions in engineering." <i>English for Specific Purposes</i> (2007) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3349en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationArcher, A. 2007. ‘The place is suffering': enabling dialogue between students' discourses and academic literacy conventions in engineering. English for Specific Purposes.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0889-4906en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Archer, Arlene AB - Students need access to the disciplinary practices of engineering, but at the same time, these practices need to transform to the realities of the changing global environment and the profession. The site of this research is an engineering foundation programme for less advantaged students in South Africa and is thus perhaps well-positioned to look afresh at some mainstream disciplinary practices. Rather than students conforming to a narrow sense of appropriate behaviour, a dialogue needs to be set up between what students bring and what the institution expects, in order to evolve innovative spaces within the curriculum. This paper explores what these spaces can offer and looks at how students negotiate complex identity positions in their writing, specifically in terms of agency and affect. It emphasizes that both educators and engineers need to learn to draw on own knowledges and experiences rather than imposing knowledge in a top-down process. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - English for Specific Purposes LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 SM - 0889-4906 T1 - ‘The place is suffering': enabling dialogue between students' discourses and academic literacy conventions in engineering TI - ‘The place is suffering': enabling dialogue between students' discourses and academic literacy conventions in engineering UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3349 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/3349
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationArcher A. ‘The place is suffering': enabling dialogue between students' discourses and academic literacy conventions in engineering. English for Specific Purposes. 2007; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3349.en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisherElsevieren_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyCentre for Higher Education Developmenten_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rights.urihttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0889-4906/.en_ZA
dc.sourceEnglish for Specific Purposesen_ZA
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2007.10.002
dc.title‘The place is suffering': enabling dialogue between students' discourses and academic literacy conventions in engineering.en_ZA
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