Threshold practices: becoming a student through academic literacies

Student transitions into the university are often conceived of via an apprentice-type model, or as entrance into a 'community of practice'. This paper disputes the applicability of these models to the indeterminate and opaque nature of student experiences of academic writing, and proposes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lesley Gourlay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UCL Press 2009-06-01
Series:London Review of Education
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=45cc8f5e-08d2-447c-aa65-5f2669991332