Russ and all:
I wonder if you are aware of the Citation Project that has been done by
Becky Howard and others to study students' citation practices and beliefs?
I don't know if this has been done in any country besides the U.S. Here's
the link to a website about it and related publications, I think including
a textbook:
http://site.citationproject.net/?page_id=25
Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Old Dominion University
Emeritus Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Syracuse University
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Theresa Hyland <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi Russ! It's great to hear that you will be at Inkshed this year! I
> look forward, as always, to your comments. I use the *Brief Penguin
> Handbook *by Faigley, Graves and Graves, as I feel that it supplies a
> lot of information about how to write as well as how to document and cite
> research. My own answer to the questions you pose are that students really
> don't understand how to read critically (see Chapter 12: Become a
> Critical Reader of Literature) and they don't understand the requirements
> of academic writing in the disciplines (see Chapter 10: particularly "What
> counts as evidence in the Disciplines"). They also don't understand the
> difference between " I agree with that statement" and " I think that
> statement, therefore that statement is mine". I also use "The Active
> Reader: Strategies for Academic Reading and Writing" by Eric Henderson,
> as he also puts reading critically ahead of writing critically, but gives a
> lot of good advice about how to do those things when confronted with
> academic writing from a variety of disciplines. Sorry for the quick
> response, but I'm thinking about my paper too! Theresa.
>
> On 05/10/15, *Russ Hunt * <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I'm drafting a piece which I plan to be working on for (and at)
> the Inkshed conference in Ottawa at the end of the month. It's
> about why students don't understand citation, documentation and
> acknowledgement. I want to begin with a quick survey of a couple
> of standard handbooks about such matters for writing classes.
>
> When I was peremptorily retired a year ago and lost my office, I
> disposed of the vast treasure trove of free samples of handbooks
> from publishers that I'd accumulated over the decades, so I'm
> not in a position to just thumb through some samples. I would
> very much appreciate some feedback from folks on the list: what
> are, in your view, the one or two most generally used or widely
> accepted current handbooks used in Canadian writing courses?
>
> Write me off list if you think it'll clutter up CASLL-L.
>
> While I'm waiting for responses, I'm off to read Doug Brent's
> piece in the current Inkshed Newsletter. Thanks for posting it,
> Margaret.
>
> -- Russ
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