Students working in a second language.

Developing writing skills considers how students learn to write academically at university. Traditionally there have been three approaches in doing so (Lea and Street (1997i) in Lea and Street 1998:2ii): The writing "skills" model, the socialisation approach and the academic literacies model. In related work, Murray and Moore (2006:54-69iii) argue that disciplinarity, a central feature of academia, needs to be accessed by students who must distinguish between the different rhetorical components that separate one discipline from another, if they wish to make a meaningful contribution to any discipline. The key to doing so is to analyse the published writing associated with such areas which can reveal the unique features of a particular discipline. Clearly university academics have an important role in assisting students to access the academic literacies in which students seek to become expert.
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More scholarly interpretations of the theoretical basis:

• Learning in university: the role of university teachers
• The role of silence in communication
• Communication and the roles of politeness and face
• Discussion as a teaching technique

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