Conference Schedule (Detailed)

Saturday, June 30, 2007

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8.00 –

9.30

Registration

9.30 – 10.00

Opening Session

10.00 – 11.00

Keynote Speaker Ken Hyland: “Teaching and researching genre:  academic writing in the disciplines”

Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.05

XXX

Presentation

Fei-Wen Cheng:

“Learning academic criticism: The case of Chinese EFL stu­dents”

cancelled

Presentation

Réka Futász:

“The research ar­ticle in the humanities: Hungarian and Con-tinental writing tra­ditions”

Presentation

John Bean:

“Teaching Expe­rimental Report Writing to Science Novices”

Presentation

Brian Turner & Judith Kearns:

“Teaching Facilitas: Rhetoric, Academic Writing, and the Under-graduate  Cur­riculum”

Workshop

Margaret Percy & Jonathan Spiers:

“Walking the tightrope: para­digm shifting in course provision”

Workshop

Katrin Girgen­sohn:

“Functions of Writing in Academic Contexts”

      Presentation

Deniz Renda Korum:

“Reflecting Upon the Obstacles to Good Writing: A Learner-led Research”

Workshop

Stans Smeets:

“How to Beat Writer’s block”

Presentation

Anker Helms Jorgenson:

“Making Expectations and Ambitions Explicit in Supervision: Two Metaphors”

12.15 – 12.50

XXX

Presentation

Elizabeth Renshaw:

“Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, and Really Want!”

XXX

Presentation

Angeniet Kam & Sophie Wils:

“A blueprint for the teaching of academic writing: four components instructional design”

cancelled

Presentation

Louis Venter:

“Academic writing and narrativity”

Presentation

 

Magdalena Kilarska:

“Introducing multiple-draft assign­ments in the writing classroom – a case study”

Presentation

Joy De Jong:

“Talking about writing: what to do when a problem comes up?”

Lunch

14.10 – 14.45

Presentation

Ingrid Scharlau:

“Reflection in portfolio and log writing”

Presentation

Hadara Perpignan:

“Academic writing for EFL graduate students: A curriculum renewal”

Workshop

Kathleen Shine Cain & Matthew Martin:

“Negotiating Writing Center / Centre Identity Across Cultures”

Presentation

Michael Grosch, Charlotte Kaempf & Gerd Gidion:

“Teaching Media and Communication Competencies to Science and Engineering Students

Presentation

Karin Wetschanow:

“Workshop discussions as expressions of a scientific community”

(German)

xxx

Workshop

Karl Henrik Flyum:

“The five para­graph method – a minimal way to teach aca­de­mic writing”

Round Table Discussion

Caroline Cof­fin, Emily Purser, James Donohue, Jan Skillen, Kelly Peake, Mary Dean & Sally Mitchell:

“Developing Academic Literacy in Context: movements between practice & theory”

Presentation

Peter Stray Jorgensen:

„Why Thesis Wri­ters pro­crastinate – in Their Own Words”

Zeitschrift Schrei­ben:

Internal Meeting of the Editors

14.55 – 15.30

Presentation

Lawrence Olivier:

“Exploring Difficulties: Lecturers Experience with Writing an Assessment Portfolio”

Presentation

Stephen Catterall & Chris Ireland:

“Writing Support for Overseas Students: quick fix or responsive solution?”

Presentation

Judith Theuerkauf:

“Teaching flexibility: Writing Skills for Engineering Students“

Presentation

Birgit Huemer, Helmut Gruber & Markus Rheindorf:

“Teaching Academic Writing to Austrian University Students: What Linguistics has to offer.”

XXX

Presentation

Ulrike Lange:

“Analysing fiction to understand writer’s block”

Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.35

Presentation

Eszter Timár:

“A genre based writing course for subject specia­lists: Case study”

Presentation

Gamze Oncul:

“Something In­side: What Makes it so Diffi­cult to Write?”

Workshop

Chris Thaiss & Christiane Donahue:

“The Global WAC/WID Map­ping Project”

Presentation

Simone Pierick: 

“Writing in the En­gineering Sciences – Concept for a Discipline Specific Trai­ning”

Presentation

Elizabeth & Jeremy Schnieder:

“Composing History: Using Oral History in the Composition Classroom”

Working Group

Gerd Bräuer et. al.:

“Communication strategies for initiating university writing centers”

Workshop

John Harbord:

“Designing Effective Syllabi for Teaching Writing

Presentation

Susan McEwen:

“’Where Do I Put My Ideas?’ Fresh­men Writing about Text”

Workshop

Malgorzata Adams- Tukiendorf:

“Overcoming writer’s block in a MA seminar”

XXX

16.45 – 17.20

Presentation

Josephine Ellis:

“Technology and writing: Valid Con­nections A­cross the Curri­cu­lum”

XXX

Presentation

Angela Ardington:

“Discipline – based Writing Sup­port: A top-down model in postgraduate Law.”

Presentation

Volker Friedrich:

"From Academic to Professional Writing?"

Presentation

Jolanta Szymanska:

“The writer stance in academic research wri­ting”

XXX

17.30 – 18.30

Prearrangement of the Elections



Conference Schedule (Detailed)

Sunday, July 1, 2007

9.00 – 10.00

Keynote Speaker Kirsti Lonka: “Writing to learn, learning to write – How writing shapes thinking and thinking shapes writing”

10.00 – 11.00

EATAW General Assembly

Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.05

Presentation

John Wrigglesworth & Mary Mc­Keever:

“Writing History: genre-based pedagogy for discipline-specific purposes.”

Presentation

Jana Kaiser, Martha Gibson, Britta Hufeisen & Peter Leit­ner:

“A Multilingual Online and Offline Writing Lab”

Presentation

Emily Purser & Celeste Rossetto:

“View from down under: supporting learner-writers through colla­borative practice in Australian Higher Education”

Workshop

Mark Beittel

“Literature Re­viewing as Craft: A Genre Ap­proach for Doctoral Students”

Workshop

Martha Boeglin:

“Preparing a Research Project Step by Step”

( French)

Presentation

José Brandão Carvalho:

“Acquiring, elabo­rating and expressing knowledge – a study with university students”

Presentation

Jaqueline van Krui­ningen, Kees de Glopper & Thea Mepschen:

“Student writer needs and tutor help: discussion about the Groningen writing centre approach”

Presentation

Esther Van der Voort:

“Writing in the Dark – why we are scared to write”          

Presentation

Anja Timm:

“What are the implications of students’ educational back-grounds?”

Round Table Discussion

Afra Sturm, Gerd Bräuer, Martin Salzmann, Monique Honegger & Nina Zimnik:

“Didactical writing approaches in the context of «dual literacy» in teacher education”

12.15 – 12.50

xxx

Presentation

Rosa Margarita Galan-Velez & Antonio Canilez Gonzalez:

“The Challenge of a Writing Center in a Spanish-Speaking Country”

Presentation

Guillaume Schiltz & Andreas Langlotz:

“Online communication and cooperation supporting academic paper writing”

Presentation

Katherine Bull & Michael Bawden:

“Critical Readers make Critical Writers”

Presentation

Olga Dysthe:

“Electronic feed­back in Higher ed­ucation”

Presentation

Judith Wolfsberger-Huber:

“Community & courage: Social dimensions and solutions to writers´ block”

Presentation

Fahimeh Marefat:

“Towards a Practical Approach to Help Students Avoid Plagiarism”

Lunch

14.10 – 14.45

Round Table Discussion

Christiane Donahue, Francois Boch, Isabelle Del­cambre, Jan Parker & Mary Scott:

“Academic Genres in French Higher Education: Cross-Cultural Contributions to Cross-Disciplinary Writing Research”

(two pre­sentations French)

Presentation

Volodymyr Sulym, Halyna Kaluzhna, co-authors: Svitlana Markelova, Tatyana Yakhontova:

“Starting Up an English Writing Center at a Ukrainian University

Presentation

Antje Proske:

“Fostering academic writing com­petences with web-based training exercises”

Presentation

Mariet Raedts:

“Observational learning in an academic writing task”

Workshop

Helga Esselborn:

“’The text is the trace of the process which pro­duced it’ – draft­ng a text skeleton”

(German)

Presentation

Lawrence Smith:

“Developing the Skill of Critically Responding to Texts”

Workshop

Harvey Kail & Paula Gillespie:

“Building Pro­grams for Peer Tu­toring in Wri­ting Centers”

XXX

Presentation

Bojana Petric:

“Quotation in student writing”

Presentation

Trudy Zuckerman:

“From Journal Writing to Action Re-search: A Step Toward Systematic Reflective Writing”

14.55 – 15.30

Presentation

Zuziwe Zantsi:

“The Role of the Writing Centre at CPUT: Stu­dents’ perspec­tive”

Presentation

David Russell:

“Multi-media online simulations for professional education: Some research results”

Presentation

Carl Kieck:

“Information Literacy in CBI: Writing about the Internet”

Presentation

Graham Badley:

“Academic writing: contested knowledge in the making”

Presentation

Lilyth Ormsby:

“Tutoring Academic Writing at the ITAM: Making a Prism out of a Kaleidoscope”

Presentation

Wendy H.F. Smeets:

“Appropriate source use: how to help students avoid plagiarism”

XXX

Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.35

Presentation

Elizabeth Turner:

“Approaches to teaching the writing of literature reviews”

Presentation

Ursula Doleschal:

“Experience with writing-courses within and across disciplines: the Klagenfurt Schreib­Center”

Presentation

Robert Lankamp:

“Controlling the number of teaching hours in online writing courses”

Presentation

Wendy Shilton:

“Less Illusion, More Integrity: Empathy and Perspective Taking in Academic Writing”

Workshop

Adrian Chapman:

“Imagining Academic Writing”

Presentation

Karl Henrik Flyum:

“Is one academic writing teacher per university better than none?”

Presentation

Nynke Borst & Kees de Glopper:

“Dominance in conversations between student writers and writing tutors”

XXX

XXX

Symposium

Froydis Hertzberg, Olga Dysthe, Rebecca O’Rourke & Lotte Rienecker:

“What do we (need to) know about teaching) academic writing in universities?”

16.45 – 17.20

XXX

Presentation

Mary Rosner:

“Talking Heads and Other Body Parts: Documenting Writing Center Interactions”

Presentation

Eva-Maria Jakobs & Matthias Knopp:

“The ‘Inter-disciplinary Web Portal: Text Production and Writing Research’”

xxx

Presentation

Olesia Lupu & Elena-Simona Mitocaru:

 “Academic Writing Tutorial for Undergraduate Business Stu­dents”

Presentation

Richard Bailey:

“Perceptions of the role and utility of written feed­back in student writing pedagogy”

Presentation

Jinghui Wang:

“Autonomous Learning with an e-English Writing Platform”

Presentation

Daniel Perrin:

“Language policy, norms, and news­writing practice as exemplified by Swiss radio and television”

17.30 –

18.15

Elections: Results

18.30 – 18.45

SIG writing: Activity Report Joachim Grabowski



Conference Schedule (Detailed)

Monday, July 2, 2007

8.30 – 9.30

Plenary Session

9.40 – 10.15

Presentation

Kirsten Schindler:

“Writing in the disciplines – Two examples for Writing Intensive Courses in the Humanities”

Symposium

Bella Rubin, Brian Turner, Birgitta Ramsey, Joan Mullin, Judith Kearns, Lisa Ganobcsik-Willliams, Martine Jey, Otto Kruse, Sylvie Plane, Thorsten Pohl & Trudy Zuckerman:

“Historical Roots of National Writing Cultures” (part I)

(two presentations French)

Round Table Discussion

Carol Peterson Haviland, Chloe delosReyes, Magnus Gustafsson, Robert Cedillo, Gerd Bräuer & Linda Berg­mann:

“Tutoring Across Borders”

Presentation

Regina Jucks, Rai­ner Bromme & Petra Schulte-Löbbert:

“The Concept Revision Tool (CRT): Promoting students learning through reflection.”

Presentation

Monique Honegger:

“The reluctance to share unfinished texts and its didactical consequences”

Working group

Mark Beittel, John Harbord, Lawrence Smith & Gabriela Ruhmann:

“Writing Support for English-medium Graduate Programs in Non English-speaking Contexts”

XXX

10.25 – 11.00

Presentation

Judith Jürgens:

“Introducing first year science students to academic writing in English”

Presentation

Peter Heath:

“Redesigning Slides for Teaching Technical Writing to Finnish Engineering Students”

Presentation

Mary Scott & Joan Turner:

“Ideologies of ‘Proofreading’”

Presentation

Joachim Grabowski:

“Typing and hand­writing performance of university students”

Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.05

Round Table Discussion

John Harbord & Esther Van der Voort:

“Writing Support: How can we respond to subject teachers’ needs?”

Symposium

“Historical Roots of National Writing Cultures” (part II)

Presentation

Gordon Dobie:

“The use of student writing corpora in the feedback process”

Presentation

Olha Ivashchyshyn & Valentyna Masymuk:

“Promoting Writing Skills through Computer Environment”

Workshop

Andrea Cleaves & Jeremy Schnieder:

“Collaborative Instruction in the Composition Class­room: Innovation  by  Design”

Presentation

Gabriele Neuhäuser:

“How Scholars can learn from Journalists”

(German)

Presentation

Jacqueline van Kruiningen:

“Social interaction and collaborative thinking in faculty development”

12.15 – 12.50

Presentation

Drorit Ram & Bruria Margolin:

“Peer-response as a scaffold for novice writers in freshman year”

Presentation

Khanh-Duc Kuttig:

“Planning, Revi­sion and Self-correction in Academic Writing”

Presentation

Caroline Coit:

“Elbow’s ‚Writing without Teachers’ Reconsidered”

cancelled

Presentation

Torsten Steinhoff:

“Development of academic writing skills”

(German)

Lunch

14.00

Closing Session





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