REDUCING THE EXPECTATIONS GAP: USING AN ACADEMIC LITERACIES APPROACH TO IMPROVE STUDENT WRITING IN ECONOMICS *

This paper reports on the evaluation of a writing program embedded within an intermediate macroeconomics course at an Australian university. This program was designed to address core issues identified by an academic literacies analysis of what might be called the higher education writing problem: an observed poor quality in the writing of higher education students across a range of disciplines. The program attempted to close an expectations gap...