Development of online activities to support PGCE students’ academic writing

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

Development of online activities to support PGCE students’ academic writing

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

Authors

Jessica Sequera jessica.sequera@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor

Professor Megan Bruce megan.bruce@durham.ac.uk
Director Of Combined Honours

Angela Gill angela.l.gill@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Rachel Simpson rachel.simpson2@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

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 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
Publisher URL	http://www.pestlhe.org/index.php/pestlhe