Academic writing from bachelor to PhD
Hovedinnhold
Interdisciplinary conference hosted by the University of Bergen, Norway
Solstrand Fjord Hotel 7.-8. October 2010
Registration deadline July 15
This is a conference for all teachers and administrators in higher education who are concerned with improving students’ writing competence.
Plenary sessions address issues that are of common concern across disciplines:
- Writing - a key competence from Humboldt to Bologna
- Feedback
- Argumentation in academic texts –different disciplinary traditions
- Deterring plagiarism
Keynote speakers – international top expertise on these topics:
- Professor Otto Kruse, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Professor Dai Hounsell, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Professor Richard Andrews, London Institute of Education, England
- Principal Lecturer Jude Carroll, Oxford Brookes University, England
- Lotte Rienecker and Peter Stray Jørgensen, Copenhagen University, Denmark
How to systematically and effectively build writing competence in the disciplines will be explored and discussed in three parallel conference sections:
- Writing in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Writing in the Natural Sciences
- Writing in Law
Poster presentations from participants welcome!
For more information go to main conference page
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Chair of Conference committee: Professor Olga Dysthe, University of Bergen, Norway
Lenker
16.04.2010