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• Title:Academic literacy for education students / Judy Seligmann.
  
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• Author/Creator:Seligmann, Judy.
  
• Published/Created:Cape Town : Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 2012.
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PE1408 .S458 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:English language--Rhetoric.
  College student orientation--South Africa.
  Academic achievement--South Africa.
  
• Description:x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199045396 (pbk.)
  0199045399 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: role of a university
  learning community
  Literacy practices
  Language development
  organisation of the textbook
  Integration of language and subject content
  Integration of theory and practice
  Integration of all four language skills
  Language focus
  Unit 1 Considering the role of language in learning and teaching
  Knowing a language
  Language acquisition and language learning
  Language and education
  Language and learning
  Language and teaching
  Language across the curriculum
  Language focus
  Unit 2 Identifying genres or text types in academic writing
  Genres
  social context of genres
  Genre knowledge
  Language focus
  Unit 3 Linking personal and academic literacies with disciplinary discourse
  Defining literacy
  Personal literacy
  Academic literacy
  Language focus
  Unit 4 Developing an academic vocabulary to communicate effectively
  Acquiring an academic vocabulary
  Reading to increase your vocabulary
  Vocabulary-building strategies
  Word parts and meanings
  Guessing a word from its context
  Looking up a word in the dictionary
  Avoiding spelling mistakes
  Unit 5 Applying skills and strategies to read selectively
  layout of textbooks
  structure of chapters
  Developing reading strategies
  Reading for different purposes
  Skimming and scanning
  Unit 6 Interacting with texts to learn from subject content
  Understanding and recalling information
  Annotating texts
  Language focus
  Writing summaries
  Creating graphic displays
  Self-questioning
  Unit 7 Recognising discourse markers that signal text functions
  Text organisation
  Creating text unity
  Repeating key nouns or substituting nouns
  Transitional signals
  Language focus
  Unit 8 Translating information visually
  Visual literacy
  Photographs
  Diagrams
  Graphs and charts
  Interpreting graphs and charts
  Data commentaries
  Language focus
  Visual presentations of data
  Line graphs
  Bar graphs
  Pie charts
  Tables
  Unit 9 Engaging with the writing process
  Interconnection between reading and writing
  Developing academic writing skills
  Audience, tone and purpose
  Writing as a process
  purpose of feedback
  Language focus
  Unit 10 Contesting academic issues through argumentation
  Critical thinking
  Considering different points of view
  Different sources of information
  Accessing information electronically
  academic argument
  need for a debatable point
  Classes of arguments
  Unit 11 Structuring an argumentative essay
  art of persuasion
  Planning your essay
  structure of an argumentative essay
  title
  introduction
  body of the essay
  Language focus
  conclusion
  Unit 12 Referencing and documenting your sources
  honesty principle
  purpose of documentation
  Quoting, paraphrasing and summarising
  Quotations
  Paraphrases
  Summaries
  Referencing
  Styles of referencing
  Synthesis
  Unit 13 Preparing to hand in your paper
  Presentation strategies
  Graphic design
  Text formatting.