A Study of the Writing Tasks and Reading Assigned to Undergraduate Science Students at a South African University

Autor/inn/en	Jackson, Leonora; Meyer, Wilhelm; Parkinson, Jean
Titel	A Study of the Writing Tasks and Reading Assigned to Undergraduate Science Students at a South African University
Quelle	In: English for Specific Purposes, 25 (2006) 3, S.260-281 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0889-4906
DOI	10.1016/j.esp.2005.04.003
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Writing Assignments; Undergraduate Students; Science Instruction; Reading Assignments; Laboratory Experiments; Writing Skills; Use Studies; Educational Practices; Research Reports; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Laboratory work; Laborarbeit; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Benutzerschulung; Bildungspraxis; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Based on a questionnaire to academic staff, this article examines the reading and writing tasks assigned to undergraduate science students at a South African university. The article finds that although academic staff in science value clearly written and well-organised writing, few see it as their task to induct students into this literacy. Instead emphasis is limited to a large degree to the ability to express relationships mathematically. The article confirms previous findings that the laboratory report is the most important genre of writing assigned to science students. It finds that textbooks make up the bulk of the reading assignments. The laboratory report has many similarities with the research article, a key genre in science, but very few research articles are assigned as reading, representing a mismatch between the most prominent genre assigned as reading (textbook) and the most frequent written tasks assigned (laboratory report). (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10