美国乔治-梅森大学Terry Myers Zawacki博士讲座通知

讲座题目：Researching the Local/Writing the Global: English Studies Programs as Rich Sites for Investigating Writing Across Disciplines

主讲人： Dr. Terry Myers Zawacki

讲座时间：2013年5月29日9:30-11:00

讲座地点：外语楼208会议室

联系人： 刘兴华

讲座摘要：

Dr. Terry Myers Zawacki’s talk will focus on the tension writing teachers often feel in the “contact zone” betweenrespecting the varieties and forms of English composed by second-language (L2) writers and the responsibility we also feel to help them write in English in the ways expected by their teachers across the curriculum.  She describes her research on faculty expectations for student writers in the disciplines, both English L1 and L2, and how students learn to meet those expectations, especially when they are often confused about what it means to be original, what voices and organizational structures are appropriate for the assigned task, and, in general, what makes writing “good” when teachers’ evaluations seem to be so different from course to course. As Dr. Zawacki explains, in addition to course content, student writers need to learn the rhetorical contexts of the disciplines—the purposes, audiences, formats (genres), conventions, styles, and voices that are expected—along with the composing and research processes specific to the field. She describes some of the pressing questions currently being asked by U.S. writing researchers about how students develop as writers in their field of study and what kinds of teaching practices are most effective. She expresses the hope that Chinese EFL writing scholars and researchers will share even more widely their research findings to inform and enhance the writing and teaching-with-writing practices around the global Englishes that we are all negotiating together.

主讲人简介：

Terry Myers Zawacki is director emerita of George Mason University’s highly ranked Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program and, until stepping down in 2010, she also directed the University Writing Center. Her publications include the co-authored Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life, the co-edited Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook, and articles on writing centers and writing fellows, alternative discourses, writing in learning communities, feminism and composition, writing assessment, and WAC and second language (L2) writing. The latter was the subject of her keynote addresses at the 2012 Middle-East North Africa Writing Center Alliance Conference in Doha, Qatar and the 2010 International WAC conference in Bloomington, Indiana. WAC and L2 writing continue to be the focus of her scholarship, most recently with her co-edited special issue of Across the Disciplines (December 2011) and a forthcoming co-edited collection WAC and Second Language Writers: Research towards Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices. In addition to her research on second language writers and expectations for these writers across the disciplines, she is currently investigating the challenges faced by dissertation writers and their advisors across the disciplines.

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2013年5月