Full Description
Transitions in Writing addresses the experiences of writers as they move between contexts of writing and juggle new and different demands. Spelman Miller and Stevenson bring together research by scholars in a range of settings across the world who approach transition from different standpoints. Transition is often conceived of as a change in setting, coinciding with physical or temporal relocation, such as between stages of an educational or professional career. However, writers also manage more local, micro-level transitions as they move between genres, registers and rhetorical moves to meet the demands of the task. The combination of both macro- and micro-level perspectives on transition offers a novel, broad conception of the types of change a writer encounters, and illustrates a range of methodological approaches appropriate to exploring such transitions.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Transitions in Writing: An Introduction
Kristyan Spelman Miller and Marie Stevenson
1 Transition in Students' Reading and Writing: The Case of A-Levels to University in the UK
Sally Baker
2 Transitions into Post-Graduate Study: Developing Writers at a British University
Clare Furneaux
3 Crossing the Divide between Writing Cultures
Ellen Krogh
4 Facilitating Non-Native English Speaker Students' Transition to Writing for the Disciplines: A Study of Learning Transfer
Veronica Ong
5 "They Don't Want My Opinion Do They?": Authorial Identity and Transitions into and within Higher Education
Ann Everitt-Reynolds, Moira Maguire and Brid Delahunt
6 Transitioning to Academic Success: Textual Change and Reflexivity in the Writing of International Postgraduate Students
Margaret Kettle and Mary Ryan
7 Writing and Speaking: Children Moving between Modalities
Victoria Johansson, Viktoria Åkerlund and Birgitta Sahlén
8 Crossing the Line: Trading Across Semiotic Systems in the Visual and Performing Arts
Bronwyn James
9 Reflective Writing: A Transitional Space between Theory and Practice
Marie Stevenson, Bronwyn James, Arlene Harvey, Minkang Kim and Eszter Szenes
Index
