Zooming Through Covid: Fostering Safe Communities of Critical Reflection via Online Writers� Group Interaction

Haas, Sarah; Soete, Alexander De; Ulstein, Gry

doi:10.37514/dbh-j.2020.8.1.01

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“…While there are various descriptions of techniques based on tutor observations and student feedback (e.g. Haas et al, 2020;Wilmot, 2018), there is little research on how postgraduate students and writing group facilitators activate dialogic strategies in actual interactions. Burbules andBruce (2001, p. 1112) comprehensively define dialogic learning and teaching as 'a pedagogical relation characterized by an ongoing discursive involvement of participants, constituted in a relation of reciprocity and reflexivity'.…”

Section: Writing Groups As Dialogic Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing Groups as Dialogic Spaces

Kaufhold¹,

Yencken²

2021

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Facilitating sustained dialogic engagement in writing groups to support postgraduates’ research-based writing can be challenging. So far there is little research on dialogic strategies in such groups. Studies of tutor-student talk around texts highlight that different dialogic strategies can invite or exclude contributions. This article investigates how writing group participants negotiate different perspectives on academic writing practices in a multidisciplinary writing group. The study analyses six recorded meetings of multilingual master’s students writing in English at a Swedish university. It identifies dialogue patterns with diverging or converging perspectives, where students refer to a range of universal or discipline-specific norms. Reference to a generic yet unspecific norm creates a space for sharing diverging perspectives while reflecting on ones’ own writing. Applying perceived universal norms to others’ texts can close down dialogue. Awareness of dialogue patterns can help facilitators to decide when to step back and when to step in as moderators.

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Section: Writing Groups As Dialogic Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%