Dyslexia, Essay-writing and Academic Context

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Dyslexia, Essay-writing and Academic Context ADSHE Midlands Workshop Nov. 2014 Christine Carter

Outline Connections between essay writing and dyslexia How do we understand them? How do they relate to the kinds of difficulty we are working with? Writing as social practice: What do we mean? Where do students identified as dyslexic fit into this picture? Implications for how we support writing Does an emphasis on ‘specialism’ really work in relation to developing writing?

Essay-writing as social practice Ways we write emerge from social and cultural context Writing as culturally driven as opposed to a set of skills Less emphasis on cognitive activity and development

Essay-writing as social practice Social practices are the ways we act, speak, write, feel, value, believe in particular settings Practices are regulated by surrounding discourses Writers are enabled or constrained differently in different disciplinary discourses

Essay-writing as social practice Disciplinary discourses influence: How knowledge is constructed The kind of writing identity that is acceptable Social relationships (with audience, tutors, disciplinary ways of being, the literature, academic language) Much of this remains implicit

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