Updated: September 6, 2013

ASTU 400A: Interdisciplinary Studies in ArtsAcademic Writing and Disciplinary Knowledge Dr. Katja Thieme
Email: katja.thieme@ubc.caOffice: Buchanan Tower 402Office hours: Wed 12:30 1:30 Assignments: Attendance and participation 10% Research report #2 Research proposal Research paper Proposal for student conference Final examination Weekly Schedule: Disciplinarity and Genre Week 1 (Sep 5) Thu. What is disciplinarily? What is genre? Week 2 (Sep 10 & 12) Tue. Becher, The Significance of Disciplinary Differences Thu. Bawarshi, The Genre Function Week 3 (Sep 17 & 19) Tue. MacDonald, Prose Styles, Genres, and Levels of AnalysisNorth, Different Values, Different Skills? working groups: planning a corpus Wed. West Coast National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission opens Thu. Gill, Discourse Analysis Corpus Studies and Discourse Analysis Week 4 (Sep 24 & 26) Tue. Huckin, Content Analysis Barton, Linguistic Discourse Analysis Thu. No class Week 5 (Oct 1 & 3) Tue. Presenting first corpus findings group reports #1 Thu. Conrad, Investigating Academic Texts with Corpus-Based Techniques Week 6 (Oct 8 & 10) Tue. Hyland, Academic Attribution Thu. Presenting literature reviews group reports #2 Designing a Research Project Week 7 (Oct 15 & 17) Tue. Proposal workshop Thu. Bazerman, Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems proposal due Week 8 (Oct 22 & 24) Tue. Par, Writing as a Way into Social Work Thu. Tardy, A Genre System View of the Funding of Academic Research Week 9 (Oct 29 & 31) Tue. Tompkins, Me and My Shadow Thu. Richardson, Skirting a Pleated Text Week 10 (Nov 5 & 7) Tue. Peer review session Thu. Discussion Week 11 (Nov 12 & 14) Tue. Presenting research findings Thu. Presenting research findings full draft of final paper due final paper due Tue 12:30 1:30

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Writing against Convention Week 12 (Nov 19 & 21) Tue. Archibald, Coyote Searching for the Bone Needle Thu. Kuokkanen, The Question of Speaking and the Impossibility of the Gift Week 13 (Nov 26 & 28) Tue. Thaiss & Zawacki, Faculty Talk about Their Writing, Disciplines, and Alternatives Thu. Final thoughts conference proposal due Course Readings: Becher, Tony. The Significance of Disciplinary Differences. Studies in Higher Education 19.2 (1994): 151-161. Web. Bawarshi, Anis. The Genre Function. Genre and the Invention of the Writer. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2003. 16-48. Print. MacDonald, Susan Peck. Prose Styles, Genres, and Levels of Analysis. Style 36.4 (2002): 618639. Web. North, Sarah. Different Values, Different Skills? A Comparison of Essay Writing by Students from Arts and Science Backgrounds. Studies in Higher Education 30.5 (2005): 517-533. Web. Gill, Rosalind. Discourse Analysis. Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sounds: A Practical Handbook for Social Research. London: Sage, 200. 172-190. Print. Huckin, Thomas. Content Analysis: What Texts Talk about. What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Eds. Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. 13-32. Print. Barton, Ellen. Linguistic Discourse Analysis: How the Language in Texts Works. What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices . Eds. Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. 57-82. Print. Conrad, Susan M. Investigating Academic Texts with Corpus-Based Techniques: An Example from Biology. Linguistics and Education 8 (1996): 299-326. Web. Hyland, Ken. Academic Attribution: Citation and the Construction of Disciplinary Knowledge. Applied Linguistics 20.3 (1999): 341-367. Web. Bazerman, Charles. Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems: How Texts Organize Activity and People. What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Eds. Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. 309-339. Print. Par, Anthony. Writing as a Way into Social Work: Genre Sets, Genre Systems, and Distributed Cognition. Transitions: Writing in Academic and Workplace Settings. Eds. P.X. Dias and Anthony Par. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton. 145-166. Print. Tardy, Christine. A Genre System View of the Funding of Academic Research. Written Communication 20.1 (2003): 7-36. Web. Tompkins, Jane. Me and My Shadow. New Literary History 19 (1987): 169-178. Web. Richardson, Laurel. Skirting a Pleated Text: De-Disciplining an Academic Life. Qualitative Inquiry 3.3 (1997): 295-303. Archibald, Jo-ann (Qum Qum Xiem). Coyote Searching for the Bone Needle. Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit . Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. 35-57. Print. Kuokkanen, Rauna. The Question of Speaking and the Impossibility of the Gift. Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. 74-96. Print. Thaiss, Chris, and Terry Myers Zawacki. Faculty Talk about Their Writing, Disciplines, and Alternatives. Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2006. 32-57. Print.