Our next Centre Online Roundtable will be on Thursday 28 March at 7pm Sydney
time, 10am South Africa, 8am UK
(check your local time!
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/aCBFCmO5glu1jV8YWcGEPJf?domain=timeanddate.com>).
Building bridges for practice: Using ‘insights’ and ‘gazes’ to extend academic
literacies theory
Kirstin Wilmot, Rhodes University
Academic writing is a bugbear across university contexts with different
approaches being offered on how to 'fix' students' 'writing problems'. Despite
academic literacies theory offering a transformative understanding of academic
writing as a social practice through which disciplinary norms and values are
expressed, replicated and sustained, many academics still believe it is merely
an English language problem. A complicating factor in the uptake of the
academic literacies approach is that it falls short on offering pedagogical
application, particularly in resource-poor contexts.
In this Roundtable, I will show how LCT can make up this shortfall. Using
doctoral writing as a case study, I will reveal how the ‘4–K model’ in
Specialization can show the sociality of writing in practical terms. I focus on
one aspect of the dissertation: where authors establish a rationale for their
study. Using insights I analyse different ways of building a rationale about a
new object of study (e.g., a topic that has never been studied before) or a new
approach to studying an object (e.g., a particular theoretical lens or
methodological tool). Using gazes I analyse the ways in which authors establish
a rationale based on legitimate ways of knowing or acting (e.g., how one has
come to know an object) or based on knower attributes (e.g., how one’s race,
gender, age etc. have afforded them legitimacy as knowers of a topic). Through
the analysis I will show how LCT provides a more conceptually sophisticated,
and practically useful, understanding of the socio-cultural nature of academic
writing.
WHERE?
On Zoom:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83321956032
Passcode: LCT2024
ROUNDTABLES AND JAZZ CAFÉS:
SYDNEY
UK
S AFRICA
Thurs 28 March
7pm
8am
10am
Kirstin Wilmot
Thurs 4 April
7pm
9am
10am
Jazz café with Karl Maton
Thurs 11 April
6pm
9am
10am
Steve Kirk
Thurs 18 April
6pm
9am
10am
Jazz café with Karl Maton
Thurs 25 April
6pm
9am
10am
Paul Curzon and Jane Waite
Thurs 2 May
6pm
9am
10am
Jazz café with Karl Maton
Thurs 9 May
6pm
9am
10am
Camilla Håkansson
Thurs 16 May
6pm
9am
10am
Jazz café with Karl Maton
Thurs 23 May
6pm
9am
10am
Jo Kukuczka
