Some of what we're doing this year to support teaching and learning at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

1. Academic Literacies andWriting 2016
Gino Fransman
Centre forTeaching Learning & Media
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
March 2016

2. www.jisc.ac.uk

3. Teaching Development
Workshop Date Time Venue
Reading Journals and
Annotated Bibliographies
31 March 14h00-15h30 M218
Using Peer Feedback to
Improve Students’ Writing
28 April 14h00-15h30 M218
Teaching Students to
Reference and Avoid
Plagiarism Part One
10 May 14h00-15h30 M218
Teaching Students to
Reference and Avoid
Plagiarism PartTwo
11 May 14h00-15h30 M218
Assessing Student Writing
Part One
TBA 14h00-15h30 TBA
Assessing Student Writing
PartTwo
TBA 14h00-15h30 TBA
Designing Writing
Assignments Using
BloomsTaxonomy
TBA 14h00-15h30 TBA
Additional recommended workshops for
those interested in teaching academic
literacies to their students:
SoTLC Topic Three: Writing to Learn and
Learning to Write
SoTLC Topic Four: Academic Literacies
through Multilingualism

5. Challenge in 2016:
a pressing student need and capacity issues

6. Draft Reviews
■ As always, students are encouraged to use the draft
review facility on offer at
http://forms.nmmu.ac.za/writingcentre/registration/
■ Our respondents are limited in 2016
■ Respondents are assigned to Faculties and
specific groups in 2016
■ Lecturers are encouraged to direct students to
our portal: www.writing.nmmu.ac.za

7. We add
support to
institutional
initiatives
Ensuring we engage with all 1st Year
students about academic writing and
accessing writing support.

8. Student support
Giving workshops on
Orientation Workshops: Writing and Higher Education
Introduction to Academic Writing
Writing andTerminology: Getting the Language ofYour Discipline
Introduction to Open Education Resources for Research
Using Social Media for Academic and Career Profiling
Writing Answers in Assignments and Exams
Essay Assignment Preparation
Mentoring a team of writing respondents who responding to student drafts either face-to-face –
individually or in groups – or online.
Open Educational Resource (OER) training for discipline-specific research

9. CVWriting goes online

10. Plagiarism and Referencing
Watch
plagiarism and referencing video
AcademicWriting
Plagiarism and Referencing
RichardGalletly
Take Notes!
This video is available as part of a collection of shared open educational resources
for the FAVOR project and available in languagebox.ac.uk/profile/1239.

11. • Introductions to Open Educational Resources
• Practical Uses of OER inWriting Support

12. Putting you in touch with resources
■ Academic Literacy Development Scoopit Site
http://www.scoop.it/t/academic-literacy-development
21st Century Graduate Literacies Scoopit Site
http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-graduate-literacies

13. Our Missionvale presence is
growing
■ New premises
■ Twice a week office hours for direct student
consultations

14. WHAT AREYOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT ALW IN 2016?
We can set up an appointment to meet
Gino.Fransman@nmmu.ac.za
Twitter: @ginofransman
Academic Literacies and Writing 2016
by Gino Fransman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.