investigación de la escritura – Postgrado Interuniversitario de Psicología de la Educación

En el marco de las actividades formativas organizadas por las comisiones académicas de los programas de postgrado MIPE y DIPE, el profesor Charles Bazerman impartirá la conferencia titulada:

«What do sociocultural studies of writing tell us about learning to write?»

This conference synthesizes and evaluates sociocultural studies of writing to understand their applicability to psychological studies. The presentation will be organized around themes of why and when people write, the consequences of writing, how writing gets done, how writing is learned, and how writing development can be supported by curriculum and instruction. The presentation will also consider issues about the intersection of the two approaches to understanding writing.

Fecha: miércoles, 16 de marzo de 2016
Hora: de 12:00h a 13:30h
Lugar: Sala de grados. Edificio la Tamarita. Universidad Ramon Llull

La conferencia está dirigida a estudiantes de máster, profesores y otros investigadores interesados en el tema.

Charles Bazerman es profesor de Educación en la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara, donde también dirigió el Programa de Educación. Es uno de los principales referentes internacionales en la investigación sobre escritura y ha contribuido de manera significativa a la consolidación de la misma como un campo de investigación específico. Desde una perspectiva socio-histórica, sus trabajos abarcan el análisis de los géneros sociales y la historia de la escritura científica, la intertextualidad, el desarrollo cognitivo propiciado por la escritura en sistemas de actividad y las relaciones entre la escritura y el desarrollo del conocimiento disciplinar. Es autor y coeditor de más de 40 libros y numerosos artículos y además es el fundador de la International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research/Sociedad Internacional para el avance de la investigación en escritura (ISAWR), que promueve la investigación interdisciplinar en las diferentes dimensiones que incluye la escritura y su aprendizaje y agrupa investigadores de los cinco continentes de varias disciplinas y perspectivas.

En el marco de las actividades formativas organizadas por las comisiones académicas de los programas de postgrado MIPE y DIPE, el Dr. Otto Kruse, profesor en Zurich University of Applied Sciences, impartirá el seminario “Academic Writing and the Research Process”

Fecha: 11 y 12 de mayo de 2015

Hora: 9:00 a 14:00h

Lugar: La Tamarita-URL. Passeig Sant Gervasi, 47,08022 Barcelona. Se informará directamente a los inscritos el número de aula donde tendrá lugar el seminario.

Inscripciones: Los estudiantes del MIPE-DIPE interesados deben inscribirse al seminario enviando un mensaje a la Dra. Montserrat Castelló Badia ‎[montserratcb@blanquerna.url.edu]‎

Method

The workshop will lead the participants will through a series of short prompts demonstrating the critical issues of research-based writing. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect their own dissertations in order to get a new understanding of the writing process, the communicative arrangement of discursive writing and get a new perspective on feedback and language use in research. Short inputs will complement the prompts and give attach the workshop to writing theory.

Contents

Monday, 11, May, 2015

1. Interactions of writing and research (9:00 – 10:30h)

Participants look at the interactions of writing and research and learn what the main determinants of academic writing are; they reflect on the relationship between critical thinking, discursive communication, and empirical research and transfer this to their own dissertation projects.

2. Reproduction of texts, intertextuality, and knowledge development (10:45 – 12:00h)

Participants reflect on the meaning of summarizing for knowledge production in their disciplines and learn what the meanings behind citation practices are. They study the rhetorical side of writing with respect to intertextuality and learn what author roles and author identities are available in disciplinary discourse communities. They reflect their own role in as dissertation writers.

3. Genre and the structure of the research article (12:15 – 14:00h)

Participants reflect the structure of their dissertation projects and learn about the meaning of genres for writing. They understand what the basic structure of all reporting genres (dissertation, research article, abstract, proposals, conference presentations) is and how this applies to their dissertation projects.

Tuesday, 12, May, 2015

4. Linguistic norms and literacy development (9:00 – 10:30h)

Participants look through some of the essential features of academic language (self-reference, hedging, meta discourse, evidentiality etc.) and do short exercised to understand the usage of such linguistic means. They reflect on their own literacy development with respect to the multi-lingual situation of European universities and the role of English as a publication and communication language.

5. Feedback and collaborative writing (10:45 – 12:00h)

Participants do a short exercise on electronic feedback and reflect on the uses and practices of successful peer feedback. They make a plan on the kinds of collaboration and feedback they need in their own dissertation projects.

6. Round-up and evaluation (12:15 – 14:00h)

Open questions and left-over issues.

Participants are asked to bring lap tops for those prompts which require internet communication.