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FGR "How to help your students write " In-Person
A session available for academic staff to help encourage quality supervision of dresearch students.
Objective: To reflect on how best to support students to produce high quality writing
The session comprises a brief presentation followed by a group discussion. Topics covered include:
- Challenges in scholarly writing
- Pedagogical practices to support academic writing
- Negotiating roles and responsibilities
- Tips to boost your students’ writing productivity
- Feedback across cultures: Supporting different thesis writers
- Effective feedback on students writing
- Components of effective feedback on student writing
- Types of feedback: Lower vs Higher order concerns
- A plan for writing deadlines: Early, middle, and final months
Venue: KK 203 (Kelburn campus)
**Please make sure you cancel your booking if you are unable to attend. You can withdraw simply by clicking on the link in the registration confirmation email you will receive.
- Date:
- Wednesday 31 May 2023
- Time:
- 10:00am - 12:10pm
- Time Zone:
- Auckland (change)
- Campus:
- Kelburn
- Categories:
- University/Academic
Registration has closed.
About the facilitators:
- Averil Coxhead is a Professor in Applied Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. She supervises postgraduate research in a range of areas. Averil is an Associate Editor of the Journal of English for Specific Purposes. She has taught in New Zealand, England, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Japan, Singapore and Thailand. Her current research includes specialised and academic vocabulary in the trades, at university and secondary school. One element of Averil's research involves developing and evaluating word lists.
- Dr Deborah Laurs – Assistant Manager, Student Learning, VUW. Deborah has taught English literature and creative and academic writing, and her current interests centre on the genre of thesis-writing, including co-authoring “Developing Generic Support for Doctoral Students” (Routledge, 2014) and “Developing Research Writing: A Handbook for Supervisors and Advisors” (Routledge, 2017). She and her fellow learning advisers are available to work one-on-one with students at all stages of the doctoral research journey.
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