I attended the second annual\u00a0Finnish Conference of Writing Research, held this year at the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. The theme was change and transformation in writing. What kind of ideas did I pick up in the two days of talks?<\/p>\n
Anne M\u00e4ntysen<\/em>‘s speech made us think about\u00a0one-on-one interactions between teachers and students, such as critiquing work.\u00a0Research suggests that in Finland\u00a0tutoring\u00a0<\/strong>sessions are\u00a0<\/strong>more hierarchical and one-sided than in Sweden.<\/p>\n Niina Hynninen<\/em>\u00a0discussed how the text in one English-language scientific article took shape. The authors negotiated about the acceptability of language and not simply its correctness. For example,\u00a0writers often do\u00a0not want specifically British usage for an article directed at an international audience.<\/p>\n The broad meaning of language was emphasized\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Ulla Tiilil\u00e4<\/em>: for example, government becomes concrete through its use of language. It is interesting to analyze whose voice comes through\u00a0<\/strong>in written decisions affecting the public: the government expert’s, or the citizen’s?<\/p>\n Sonja Kniivil\u00e4<\/em>\u00a0spoke about voices in scientific writing. According to her, research may have three voices: that of the field in general, that of the sources, and that of the author. As part of instruction for writing, the ability to recognize voices\u00a0is crucial. For that reason Kniivil\u00e4 has her students mark different voices in text with different colors.<\/p>\n In\u00a0the closing speech,\u00a0Minna-Riitta Luukka\u00a0<\/em>illustrated\u00a0the multidimensionality of writing and language skills. Writing research has expanded from individuals to community, from learning to socialization, and from general knowledge to situational skills. Language, and the text it appears in, are related to everything in society, so we need to deepen our linguistic awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I attended the second annual\u00a0Finnish Conference of Writing Research, held this year at the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. The theme was change and transformation in writing. What kind of ideas did I pick up in the two days of talks? Anne M\u00e4ntysen‘s speech made us think about\u00a0one-on-one interactions between teachers and students, such as critiquing work.\u00a0Research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}