Mastering Academic Writing: An interview with the authors

Teaching Writing: Ideas and Strategies

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In this episode I talk with Boba Samuels and Jordana Garbati, authors of the textbook Mastering Academic Writing. You'll hear about how their wealth of experience working with students in writing centres informed the way they wrote this book and the kinds of needs the book fills.

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Mastering Academic Writing: An interview with the authors

Teaching Writing: Ideas and Strategies

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64 episodi

#Writing-across-the-curriculum #Ctl #Wac #Cac #Roger Graves #Teaching Trends #Teaching #Writing #Storytelling #Books and Writing #Podcasting Education #Teaching&learning

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Episode 64: How to write short reports 6:26

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Of the many kinds of writing done at work, writing short reports to update others about our work must rank high on the list of important and frequent documents written. This episode describes how to write these reports well.

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How do you write a good proposal? This episode, based on Chapter 10 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations , describes how to prepare both solicited and unsolicited proposals.

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Episode 62: Writing Persuasive Messages 7:46

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How can you write messages that will persuade your readers to adopt your point of view or proposed action? This episode, based on Chapter 9 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations (broadview.com), describes how to organize both direct request messages as well as problem-solving messages--the two main varieties of persuasive messages.…

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Episode 61: Say it ain't so: Writing Negative Messages 6:41

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How can you deliver bad news while maintaining the best chance of not alienating your reader? This episode, based on Chapter 8 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations (Broadview.com), explains how to organize bad news messages.

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Episode 60: How to write a positive message 6:29

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This episode focuses on how to write positive and informative messages.It is based on Chapter 7 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations (Broadview.com).

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Episode 59: Communicating Across Cultures 10:04

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How do we adjust our communications for audiences from cultural backgrounds different from our own? This episode starts with advice on how to do this for audiences within North America and then considers how to communicate with cultural groups across the world. The episode summarizes Chapter 6 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations (Broadview.com).…

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Episode 58: Writing in Teams 10:45

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This episode identifies two models for writing as part of a team: hierarchical and dialogic. Good team behaviors and behaviors to avoid are also discussed, as well as ways to resolve conflict.

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Episode 57: Teaching Business Communication 10:45

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This episode provides a guide to using the sample syllabus, lesson plans, assignments, and grading rubrics for our Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations book (all materials are at wecanwrite.ca).

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Episode 56: Writing Online at Work 9:23

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This episode begins with an overview of how to write a good email message before moving on to give some tips on how to write for social media.

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Episode 55: Writing Style at Work 12:02

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This episode considers the kind of writing style you should employ in business and professional contexts, including a discussion of plain language principles.

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Episode 54: Arguing persuasively in business contexts 10:25

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This episode provides an overview of Chapter 2 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations. It helps listeners understand how to create a persuasive argument in a business setting.

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Episode 53: Audience, Purpose and Genre in Business Communications 10:53

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This episode discusses three key elements of any kind of business communication: who you communicate with, why you are communicating with them, and what kind of communication you use.

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Episode 52: Presenting Technical Communication 8:55

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People often fear giving presentations, but this episode offers strategies to ditch the fear and embrace the occasion.

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Episode 51: Technical Communication Online 7:15

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To communicate technical communication effectively, we need to use online modes: file-sharing, pdfs, screencasts, podcasts, and more.

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Episode 50: How to Write a Lab Report 7:15

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What are the basic elements of a laboratory report in the sciences? This episode describes the sections of the lab report and what to put in the different sections.

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Episode 49: Reports 9:11

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This episode provides an overview of short and long reports from Chapter 7 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication (Broadview Press).

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Episode 48: Essentials of Business Communication 7:12

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What is the least you need to know to get started writing in an organization? This episode provides an overview of Chapter 6 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication. We focus on audience, genres (email, memos, letters) and purpose (persuading, informing, building goodwill).

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Episode 47: When to use visuals in technical communication 6:45

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When--and which--visuals should you use when communicating technical and scientific information? This podcast gives a short overview of the answers to those questions from Chapter 5 of our Concise Guide to Technical Communication.

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Episode 46: Supporting Students after an Academic Integrity Infraction 18:19

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How do we help students come back after an academic integrity infraction? In this episode, I talk with Dr. Tyler Cawthray of the University of Southern Queensland about the strategies they employ to support students and finish their degree programs.

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Episode 45: Writing Technical Prose 9:50

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This episode describes techniques outlined in Chapter 4 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication (broadview.com) to make your writing clearer, more cohesive, and more concise.

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Episode 44: Ethical Issues in Technical Communication 7:55

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This episode gives an overview of Chapter Two of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication where we discuss ethical issues that come up in technical communication.

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What possessed us to write the Concise Guide to Technical Communication? In this episode Heather Graves and Roger Graves talk about why they wrote this new book and how their research and academic work contributed to it.

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Audience, Purpose, Genre, & Medium 9:08

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This episode provides an overview of how audience, purpose, genre and medium affect the choices you need to make as you communicate.

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Researching Technical Information 10:09

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In Chapter 3 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication from Broadview Press, we discuss ways to generate information for technical documents through interviews, surveys, and online research. This podcast provides an overview and introduction to the chapter.

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The Talk: How to interview students about academic integrity violations 15:42

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Cosette Lemelin and Roger Graves talk about The Talk: how should instructors go about conducting and interview with a student about a possible, probable, or even blatant academic integrity violation? We identify strategies and profile four different kinds of strategies students tend to use when they arrive for these conversations.…

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Academic Integrity Online 10:19

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Academic integrity manifests itself somewhat differently in online instructional contexts. In this episode, Roger Graves talks with Ellen Watson of the University of Alberta's Centre for Teaching and Learning about how instructors can organize their online courses to discourage cheating and maintain the academic integrity of online learning. This podcast is published in conjunction with a blog of the same title at https://blog.ualberta.ca and also available as an episode with the "Teaching Plus" podcast of the University of Alberta Centre for Teaching and Learning.…

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In this episode I define writing style in academic writing, and consider the three levels of style: low or plain, middle or forcible, and high or elaborated. Using these as a rough guide to readability, we use a style analysis tool to both examine our own writing styles and those of other writers you might seek to emulate.…

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Styles of Academic Writing 11:32

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In this episode we'll examine writing style: the low or plain style, the middle or forcible style, and the high or florid style. Using those definitions, we'll describe ways to analyze the style a document is written in as a way to develop the ability to write in several different styles.

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In this episode we’ll review some of the advice given to academics who write, including Helen Sword’s Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write, and map it against Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. We’ll consider the map those books provide in the context of research about writers to think about what makes us more or less productive as academic writers.…

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