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.
>
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