Development of online activities to support PGCE students’ academic writing

Sequera, J.; Bruce, M.; Gill, A.; Simpson, R.

Abstract

This article outlines a collaboration between the Foundation Centre and the Education PGCE department at Durham University to support student teachers on a particular academic writing assignment (the Self Directed Study assignment). This project involved designing online academic writing activities tailored especially to the assignment. These activities made use of excerpts of exemplar student writing as well as the FOCUS corpus, a Foundation Centre initiated database of “good” (2:1 or First) Durham University student writing. The article outlines the challenges for the students with this particular assignment, details of the collaboration, student feedback from the first roll out of the activities as well as future steps in this ongoing project.

Citation

Sequera, J., Bruce, M., Gill, A., & Simpson, R. (2020). Development of online activities to support PGCE students’ academic writing. Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, 14(1), 18-36

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jan 27, 2020
• Publication Date: Jan 27, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jan 27, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 27, 2020
• Journal: Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education
• Publisher: Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 18-36
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1278124
• Publisher URL: http://www.pestlhe.org/index.php/pestlhe