By Brian V. Street, Carys Jones, Joan Turner

This quantity goals to elevate know-how of the underlying complexities touching on scholar writing in greater schooling. It explores the epistemological, cultural, historic and theoretical bases of such writing, with reference to the literacy degrees required of such students.

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Language and Social Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hewitt, R. 1992. ” Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Ivanic, R. 1992. ” Paper at Domains of Literacy Conference, U. L. I. E. Ivanic, R. 1997. Writing and Identity. The discoursal construction of identity in academic writing. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Lea, M. 1994. ), Improving Student learning: Theory and practice. Oxford: OSCD. Lea, M. 1996. ” Paper to Annual Meeting of AERA: New York.

There is no explicit link to the preceding paragraph although one could be inferred perhaps from the reference to abolition. The paragraph goes on to identify the main contributors to the move for emancipation, outlining major events in the run up to the Edict in 1861. There are eight different topics, and although some are probably expected to be alternative ways of expressing the same thing, it emphasises the impression that this is a list. As in Extract 1, Extract 2 also suffers from ambiguity in its cohesiveness, particularly with referencing.

A first reading of this paragraph gives the impression that it is well written, logical and relevant. Indeed, it was awarded a tick by its ‘official’ reader. Closer 24 FIONA ENGLISH analysis reveals, however, faults in logic which result from poor referencing and weaknesses in paragraph development. This is the kind of instance that I referred to earlier where the reader makes the logic fit despite faulty cohesion. (i) TOPIC AND COMMENT In this stage of the analysis I wanted to focus on the topic, the comment and certain cohesive devices, particularly reference and discourse markers, employed.

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