With increasing diversity among students seeking higher education places in the past two
decades, Australian universities are under constant pressure to juggle the competing …

As the diversity of the student population grows in the tertiary education sector, and
communications become more multi-modal, the nature of “literacy” in university curricula …

This paper considers the role of student academic writing in subject learning at university. It
makes the case for embedding student writing and academic literacy pedagogy in curricula …

This paper presents a two-part case study that used the seminal Lea and Street (1998)
paper on academic literacies to inform ways of working collaboratively with a range of …

As the number of students entering higher education continues to increase, many English-
medium universities have been looking carefully at how to more effectively ensure that those …

In recent decades, the contextualisation of academic literacy practices through in-discipline
initiatives has become more common in Australian universities (Harris & Ashton, 2011), and …

In at least one fundamental respect, our universities are failing to clarify what they expect of
students and what students and other stakeholders can expect of them. This failure concerns …

The development of the academic literacies approach has provided learning developers
with a range of powerful tools to help all students to progress through higher education …

Australian higher education policy aimed at widening participation focuses on the inclusion
of students from diverse backgrounds, including those from a low socio economic status …

Where, when and how (indeed whether) academic writing should be taught to university
students, who are not necessarily aiming to study‹ language› per se, has long been a …