https://publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/joaw/issue/feed Journal of Academic Writing 2025-09-30T13:14:35+00:00 Dr. Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams & Dr Magnus Gustafsson joaw@coventry.ac.uk Open Journal Systems <p>The <em>Journal of Academic Writing</em> is an international, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the teaching, tutoring, researching, administration and development of academic writing in higher education in Europe.</p> <p>Published by the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), the <em>Journal of Academic Writing</em> is relevant to teachers, scholars, and program managers across disciplines and across the world who are interested in conducting, debating&nbsp;and learning from research into best practices in the teaching of writing.</p> https://publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/joaw/article/view/1114 Booksprints as a Learning Format for Students in Higher Education 2024-10-05T05:05:03+00:00 Anja Voigt-Färber anja.voigt@srh.de <p>This article introduces booksprints as an innovative teaching and learning format for academic writing for undergraduate students. Booksprints foster writing with alternative concepts of authorship and enable students to collaboratively go through an almost authentic digital writing and publishing process in a minimum of time, and at the same time facilitate various future skills, such as written communication, coping with change, and digital literacy. Still being in a ‘prototype’ phase, booksprints are only just being tested as a potential educational format that is a bridge between subject matter and writing/teaching methodology. This article, therefore, presents the basic design of booksprints as well as some specific features, such as moderation of the process by the facilitator, explicit role assignments, visualized project management and the use of digital platforms, in order to introduce them as a writing-intensive learning setting for higher education.</p> 2025-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Academic Writing https://publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/joaw/article/view/1116 Balancing Preference and Practicality 2025-06-03T08:28:11+00:00 Gayle Pringle Barnes Gayle.PringleBarnes@glasgow.ac.uk <p>How – and why – do students engage with an increasingly diverse range of learning opportunities in the digitised university? This paper investigates students’ motivations for choosing in-person, online or asynchronous study modes and explores the implications for academic writing provision. I reflect on student and teacher experiences on a non-credit, Masters-level academic writing course at a UK university which was delivered through a ‘hybrid-flexible’ approach (Beatty, 2019). Students could opt to learn through synchronous in-person (on-campus) classes, synchronous online classes or asynchronous activities delivered through a virtual learning environment; all study modes supported the same learning outcomes and students could switch between them as they choose. Course evaluations reveal students have different motivations for choosing in-person, online or asynchronous learning, and suggest that learning preference and practical motivations are not always aligned. I reflect on the opportunities and challenges I encountered as a teacher designing and delivering hybrid-flexible academic writing content. I conclude by exploring how tensions between learning preference and practical motivations might be addressed in the design and delivery of in-person, online and asynchronous learning activities.</p> 2025-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Academic Writing https://publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/joaw/article/view/1315 Review of Change and Stability in Thesis and Dissertation Writing: The Evolution of an Academic Genre 2025-06-09T00:06:32+00:00 Febriana Lestari febri@iastate.edu Angela Hakim ahakim@iastate.edu <p>This is a book review of <em>Change and Stability in Thesis and Dissertation Writing: The Evolution of an Academic Genre </em>by Paltridge and Starfield (2024).</p> 2025-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Academic Writing https://publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/joaw/article/view/1366 Editorial and Production Credits (Vol. 15 No. 1 2025) 2025-09-30T10:18:07+00:00 Magnus Gustafsson magusta@chalmers.se Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams chd001@coventry.ac.uk Hatice Çelebi h.celebi@tue.nl 2025-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Academic Writing https://publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/joaw/article/view/1357 Editorial: Expanding the Horizons of Academic Writing Pedagogy 2025-09-10T19:32:34+00:00 Hatice Çelebi h.celebi@tue.nl Magnus Gustafsson magusta@chalmers.se Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams chd001@coventry.ac.uk 2025-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of Academic Writing