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    Writing in and for the academy: collaborative writing development with students and lecturers at the UWC Writing Centre 

    Clarence, Sherran (SUN Media, 2011)
    Writing and reading critically are core academic practices that many South African tertiary students struggle with throughout undergraduate study. This is partly due to a lack of competency in English as a first language, ...
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    Building an evolving method and materials for teaching legal writing in large classes 

    Clarence, Sherran; Mwambene, Lea; Albertus, Latiefa (Springer, 2014)
    In South Africa and in other parts of the world, many professions are bemoaning the poor ability of many graduates to communicate their skills and knowledge effectively once they enter the workplace. Increasingly, pressure ...
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    Exploring pedagogical possibilities for transformative approaches to academic literacies in undergraduate Physics 

    Conana, Honjiswa; Marshall, Delia; Case, Jennifer M. (University of the Western Cape, 2016)
    How can research on academic literacies throw light on the challenge to widen access to undergraduate science studies? This article explores what an academic literacies approach might mean in the context of undergraduate ...
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    The reading habits and practices of undergraduate students at a higher education institution in South Africa: a case study 

    Bharuthram, Sharita (Independent Institute of Education, 2017)
    Research conducted in South Africa has shown that the reading literacy level of students entering higher education is lower than is desirable. In an attempt to gain an understanding of students’ reading habits and ...
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    Making a case for the teaching of reading across the curriculum in higher education 

    Bharuthram, Sharita (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)
    Over the past two decades there has been much written in the literature about the importance of reading and the importance of teaching students reading strategies to improve their reading comprehension. Reading is one ...
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    Embedding academic literacy skills into the mainstream curriculum: the case of information systems 131/132 

    Ndesi, L.; Kimani, L.; Latief, N.; Mcghie, Venicia (Central University of Technology, Free State, 2016)
    This paper reports on collaborative teaching between two academic literacy (AL) specialists and two lecturers teaching first-year students Information Systems (IFS) 131/132 during the 2012 and 2013 academic years in ...
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    Students’ navigation of the uncharted territories of academic writing 

    Bharuthram, Sharita; McKenna, Sioux (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
    Many students enter tertiary education unfamiliar with the ‘norms and conventions’ of their disciplines. Research into academic literacies has shown that in order to succeed in their studies, students are expected to ...
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    Making inter-disciplinary spaces for talk about and change in student writing and literacy development 

    Clarence, Sherran (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
    This paper discusses the role of a writing centre in creating spaces for talk about and change in disciplinary writing pedagogy. It asks how collaborative partnerships between disciplinary academics and Writing Centre ...
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    "We are not in the least bit used to these ways of studying": Developing academic competence in all students 

    McMillan, Wendy (American Association of Dental Schools, 2005)
    This article is located in the field of academic development in oral health science education. Specifically, it examines the academic difficulties experienced by oral hygiene students in their transition from high school ...
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    Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University 

    Antia, Bassey E.; Dyers, Charlyn (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
    This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ...
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