Sustainable Writing Support:
Higher education is today characterised by increasing student groups and high pressure on teaching staff. In these circumstances, it may be difficult to provide appropriate scaffolding of activities that many students find challenging, for example, academic and discipline-specific writing. It may a...
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Higher education is today characterised by increasing student groups and high pressure on teaching staff. In these circumstances, it may be difficult to provide appropriate scaffolding of activities that many students find challenging, for example, academic and discipline-specific writing. It may also be difficult to align such support with principles associated with effective learning. In this paper, we present the design of the bachelor thesis writing support for students at a university of technology. The support is delivered by a communication division and reaches approximately 900 students each year. The paper describes the principles guiding the design and use results from a student survey to illuminate the challenges and affordances of the approach. The survey results show that students appreciate the module and its focus on dialogic feedback, student engagement and student activity. Our results also show that one of the challenges for some students is to negotiate advice from multiple sources, primarily content supervisors and writing staff. Despite such challenges, the design is an example of a sustainable, large-scale writing module based on research on feedback and learning.
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| spelling | doaj.art-12aa306018fa44ca995378d3993196be2023-09-03T14:37:55ZdanMalmö University PressEducare2004-51902021-09-01110.24834/educare.2021.1.2Sustainable Writing Support:Andreas Eriksson0Fia Börjeson1Carl Johan Carlsson2Chalmers University of TechnologyChalmers University of TechnologyChalmers University of Technology Higher education is today characterised by increasing student groups and high pressure on teaching staff. In these circumstances, it may be difficult to provide appropriate scaffolding of activities that many students find challenging, for example, academic and discipline-specific writing. It may also be difficult to align such support with principles associated with effective learning. In this paper, we present the design of the bachelor thesis writing support for students at a university of technology. The support is delivered by a communication division and reaches approximately 900 students each year. The paper describes the principles guiding the design and use results from a student survey to illuminate the challenges and affordances of the approach. The survey results show that students appreciate the module and its focus on dialogic feedback, student engagement and student activity. Our results also show that one of the challenges for some students is to negotiate advice from multiple sources, primarily content supervisors and writing staff. Despite such challenges, the design is an example of a sustainable, large-scale writing module based on research on feedback and learning. https://ojs.mau.se/index.php/educare/article/view/495dialogic feedbackgeneric skillswriting in the discipline (WID)thesis writing |
| spellingShingle | Andreas Eriksson Fia Börjeson Carl Johan Carlsson Sustainable Writing Support: Educare dialogic feedback generic skills writing in the discipline (WID) thesis writing |
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| topic | dialogic feedback generic skills writing in the discipline (WID) thesis writing |
| url | https://ojs.mau.se/index.php/educare/article/view/495 |
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