Speaking in the Disciplines: A “Precedents” Archive for Teaching and Learning Oral Genres

TitleSpeaking in the Disciplines: A “Precedents” Archive for Teaching and Learning Oral Genres
Faculty/College/UnitArts
StatusCompleted
Duration2 Year
Initiation04/01/2019
Completion04/01/2023
Funding Details
Year 1: Project YearYear 1
Year 1: Funding Year2019/2020
Year 1: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 1: Principal InvestigatorMoberley Luger
Year 1: Funded Amount24,853
Year 1: Team Members

Moberley Luger, Lecturer, Coordinated Arts Program and English, Faculty of Arts
Laurie McNeill, Senior Instructor, English / Chair, First-Year Programs, Faculty of Arts
Tom Kemple, Professor, Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Year 1: Summary

First-Year Programs in the Faculty of Arts take a “Writing in the Disciplines” approach to teaching academic communication, inviting students to see the specific and diverse moves that scholars make in presenting their research. Yet while students have access to many precedents for scholarly writing, they have few precedents for scholarly speaking. In keeping with Giltrow et al’s claim that new genres should be taught through “practice and precedent,” this project will provide students with models for oral academic discourse. It will create an open-access website featuring: (1) a video archive of presentations from the annual, multi-disciplinary, CAP student conference; (2) a database aggregating information about selected presentations and colloquia taking place on campus; (3) coordinated curricular materials on presentations for students and faculty. By aligning academic writing and speaking pedagogies, the project will enhance learning outcomes in first year and beyond by helping students successfully to inhabit the speaking styles of the university.

Year 1: TLEF ShowcaseYear 1: TLEF Showcase
Year 2: Project YearYear 2
Year 2: Funding Year2022/2023
Year 2: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 2: Principal InvestigatorMoberley Luger
Year 2: Funded Amount22,094
Year 2: Team Members

Moberley Luger, Assistant Professor of Teaching, English Language and Literatures / Coordinated Arts Program, Faculty of Arts
Craig Stensrud, GAA / PhD Candidate, English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts
Brianne Orr-Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Teaching, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts
Laila Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Journalism, Writing and Media, Faculty of Arts
Anne Stewart, Lecturer, Coordinated Arts Program, Faculty of Arts
Katie Fitzpatrick, Lecturer, Journalism, Writing and Media / Coordinated Arts Program, Faculty of Arts
Michael Schandorf, Lecturer, Journalism, Writing and Media / Coordinated Arts Program, Faculty of Arts
Patty Kelly, Program Director, Centre for Scholarly Writing and Scholarly Communication
Kari Marken, Lecturer, Sauder School of Business

Year 2: Summary

Most first-year writing courses in the Faculty of Arts take a “Writing in the Disciplines” approach to academic communication, inviting students to see the specific and diverse moves that scholars make in their research. Yet while students can access many precedents for scholarly writing, they have few precedents for scholarly speaking. This project provides students with models for oral academic discourse. In the first year of TLEF funding, we launched the initial pilot of the PASS (speaking.arts.ubc.ca), a web tool that currently features: (1) a video archive of presentations from the multi-disciplinary CAP student conference; (2) guides with excerpted videos to familiarize students with specific features of scholarly speaking; (3) curricular supports for faculty. Our tool enhances learning outcomes by familiarizing students with academic speaking styles. Since familiarity with academic genres is uneven and students often harbour anxieties around oral communication, our archive of student presentations directly addresses classroom inequities.

Year 2: TLEF ShowcaseYear 2: TLEF Showcase
Project Report2022-TLEF-Final-Report-Luger-WEB.pdf