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You are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk 3rd International Conference iPED 2008 Proceedings ‘Researching Academic Visions & Realities’ Academic Writing Conceptions of Leadership Emergent Pedagogies 8-9 September 2008 Coventry University TechnoCentre, UK Proceedings of the 3rd International iPED Conference, iPED 2008 Edited by the iPED Research Network 8-9 September 2008 Coventry: Coventry University ISBN 978-1-84600-0218 ‘Researching Academic Visions and Realities’ The conference archived website may be found at www.coventry.ac.uk/iped2008 Overview Bringing together a globally diverse community comprising academic developers and innovators, academic leaders and managers, as well as practice-based scholars and education researchers, the 2008 conference provides a forum for collaborative exploration and discourse on increasingly pressing academic realities. Presenters' evaluations of the realities of academic life, and the design of appropriate and potentially pioneering responses address three key themes: Academic Writing Academic Writing is emerging in the UK and around the world as a field of enquiry that examines the ways in which students learn, and underpins innovations in how writing is taught in disciplines and across institutions. iPED 2008 addresses key Academic Writing issues and visions through a pedagogical research focus. Contributions consider the role of writing centres and writing programmes in developing teaching and research practices. Contributions also investigate conventions of reflective writing in the university and engage with contentious questions about how and whether or not reflection might be assessed. Some contributions interrogate theories and strategies of assessing via writing portfolios and through portfolios containing written elements, while other contributions investigate aspects and challenges of supporting postgraduates and academics in publishing in English. The visions and reality of Academic Writing experience in higher education institutions are explored through this theme. Conceptions of Leadership Globally, post-compulsory education is experiencing a period of radical change. The need for leadership, and the pressures on those in leadership roles is greater than ever before. This theme explores conceptions of academic leadership in a range of contexts, which includes: • International visions of leadership, leadership in global higher education: including trans-national, virtual, private and corporate universities; leading multinational teams. • Peer-led teams: moving from hierarchical management to leadership through relational capital. • Boundaryless leadership beyond the university: leadership in virtual organisations, leadership in research networks, leadership within collaborative partnerships. • Professional development for academic leadership. • Visions for strategic leadership. • Leadership in the context of widening participation. • Leadership and influence in educational development. Papers report contemporary research, inform professional practice, and facilitate professional development for those in, or aspiring to, leadership roles in post-compulsory education. Contributions emphasise visions of effective leadership to face a challenging future. Emergent Pedagogies This strand of the conference is concerned with our response to the realities of higher education: how are we meeting the demands of our learners who come from a wide range of backgrounds, engage in learning in a variety of contexts and hold increasingly high expectations of personalised learning and assessment in a mass higher education system. Have the explosion of the web and the arrival of Web 2.0 resulted in the anticipated paradigm shift in learning and teaching? To what extent do immersive and social-networking technologies promote learning and encourage inclusion. Are the innovations we propose sustainable, transferable and generalizable? We explore research that challenges pre-existing assumptions about teaching and learning and the evaluation of innovations that contribute to new conceptions of education in the post-compulsory sector. Contributors aim to sustain and extend proven innovations beyond the original learning communities, including the shifts in academic identities upon which emergent pedagogies depend. iPED Conference 2008: Researching Academic Visions and Realities 1 iPED Conference 2008: Researching Academic Visions and Realities 2 Contents iPED 2008 Conference Peer Reviewer Panel__________________________________________7 KEYNOTES _______________________________________________________________ 9 Philip Chambers* Researching Academic Visions and Realities: Learning from the Arts _____9 Stephen Downes* How I Know What I Know About Online Learning _____________________10 Robin Middlehurst* Transforming University Leadership: Concepts and practice__________11 Sally Mitchell * & Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams** The Role of Writing Development Work in the University _____________________________________________________________________12 James Morrison* Speculations on the Future of Higher Education ______________________13 ACADEMIC WRITING ______________________________________________________ 14 Joelle Adams* & Sally Griffin* Supporting the Academic Writing of ‘Widening Participation’ Students in the Changing Context of Higher Education _______________________________14 Rebecca Bell* Poster Pedagogy: Using the EKARV Method to Explain Exam Terms________15 Fatos Eren Bilgen* Confronting Ourselves: Using reflective journals as tools for self- evaluation and professional development of English language teachers in Cyprus ________16 Lisa Clughen* & Matt Connell* Writing and Resistance: Preliminary findings from a pilot project to embed writing-across-the-curriculum in social theory at Nottingham Trent University (Full Paper)___________________________________________________________17 Jayne Dalley* Reflection in an Academic Context: Articulating outcomes ________________22 Mary Deane* One-to-one Writing Consultations: Vision and reality (Full Paper)____________23 Majid Fatahipour* The Relationship Between Ambiguity Tolerance and the Use of Strategies in Overcoming Writer's Block ( Full Paper) ____________________________________________30 Magnus Gustafsson* Anti-Realism for Academic Writing ______________________________37 Sandra Harrison* & Roger Morgan** Using Controlled Language Software to Identify Potential Problems for Non-Native Speakers in the Language of Engineering Examination Papers ___39 Simon Kinzley* The Effect of Academic Writing Instruction on Chinese Students’ Academic Performance: A case study_______________________________________________________40 Valentyna Maksymuk*, Olha Ivashchyshyn* & Yuriy Zavhorodnev* Interactive Assessment Techniques for Teaching Writing __________________________________________________41 Jenny Moon* A Workshop to Introduce and Improve the Quality of Reflective Writing ______42 Hilary Nesi* An Approach to Genre Families from a Multidisciplinary Perspective for Academic Writing Instruction______________________________________________________________43 Rebecca O'Rourke* Reflective Writing as Textual Practice _____________________________44 Claire Penketh: Symposium - Shifting the Locus of Responsibility for Academic Writing ___45 Helen Newall* How to Turnitin Frogs into Princes: A plagiarism detection software story of changing the habits of a lifetime __________________________________________________45 Jeannette Ellis* & Helen McNeill* Feedback in Focus: Do students really engage with their feedback? _____________________________________________________________________46 Claire Penketh* ‘I can’t just ‘write’ - other things need doing!’ __________________________47 Linda Rush* Tutors as Learners (as Writers) ________________________________________48 Lucy Rai* Reflective Writing in Social Work Education ________________________________50 iPED Conference 2008: Researching Academic Visions and Realities 3 Peter Samuels* & Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams* Academic Writing Centres and Mathematics Support Services: Developing advanced services through collaboration _________________52 Christine Sinclair* Towards a Blueprint for a Writing Centre ___________________________53 Frank Su*, Bill Norton* & Lin Norton* The Challenges Chinese Students Face in Academic Writing in Two UK Universities____________________________________________________55 Sonia Vasconcelos* Looking at Current Trends Toward Multilingualism in Building Knowledge-Based