The Transition from Academic to Workplace Writing: Students Talk about their Experiences

Voloshinov, V.N. (1983).Literary stylistics: The construction of the utterance. In A. Shukman (Ed.),N. Owen (Trans!.).BakhtinSchoolPapers(pp. 114-138). Oxford: RPT Publications (abridged). (Original work published in 1930). This article reports 0/1a stlldy of the transitiol/ ji-Oll/IlIIiversity to 1I'0rkpillee writing as experiel/ced by stlldel/ts i/1a CII-opemtiw edunltion work plaeeII/ent progmll/llle. Inforll/ed IIYthe wl/eept tllllt writil/g is social il/ llilture, this stlldy supports a genre based analysis of the writing a/1d the transitions made by the stlldents in the progmll/llle. Issues of writaly identity lire Ilddressed.As well, this article engages ill the ongoil/g debllte Ill/out tile vil/ue of explicit gel/re il/structiol/, col/c/udil/g that such illStflietiol/ is illlpi/rtal/t, especially given the ill/plicatiol/s al/d costsof errors il/ usil/g lVorkplllcegel/res. Smart, G., & Brown, N. (2002). Learning transfer or transforming learning?: Student interns reinventing expert writing practices in the workplace. Technostyle, 18 (1), 117-141.