| Publication type: | Conference paper |
| Type of review: | Not specified |
| Title: | Investigating multilingual(s') writing processes |
| Authors: | Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen |
| Proceedings: | Interdisciplinarity: thinking and writing beyond borders : proceedings from the 25th Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2008 |
| Editors of the parent work: | Graves, Heather Graves, Roger |
| Page(s): | 59 |
| Pages to: | 82 |
| Conference details: | 25th Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Vancouver, 1-3 June 2008 |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | McCallum |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Edmonton |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9866269-0-6 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Academic writing; Writing process; Multi-method approach; Multilingualism |
| Subject (DDC): | 418.02: Translating and interpreting 808: Rhetoric and writing |
| Abstract: | Producers of technical and academic texts in Switzerland must be able to move comfortably between languages, perhaps processing source information in English and synthesizing, writing, and/or translating it for an English-, German- or French-speaking audience. The conventional distinctions between translating, technical and academic writing, and editing have become blurred as people with different educational backgrounds are expected to handle various text production tasks. The questions of how they do this, what resources they access and incorporate into their writing processes, and which strategies they use to obtain the quality required for a particular job within the time available are addressed in this paper. A multi-method approach to investigating multilinguals' writing processes allows comparisons across different types of language tasks (e.g. technical writing, translation, revision, editing), texts (e.g. academic, technical, marketing, financial), and language versions (e.g. first/native or second/non-native language). Extracts of writing processes from multilingual students in an English academic writing course are analyzed and presented as examples of an application of this approach. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/2998 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Ehrensberger-Dow, M. (2010). Investigating multilingual(s’) writing processes [Conference paper]. In H. Graves & R. Graves (Eds.), Interdisciplinarity: thinking and writing beyond borders : proceedings from the 25th Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2008 (pp. 59–82). McCallum.
Ehrensberger-Dow, M. (2010) ‘Investigating multilingual(s”) writing processes’, in H. Graves and R. Graves (eds) Interdisciplinarity: thinking and writing beyond borders : proceedings from the 25th Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2008. Edmonton: McCallum, pp. 59–82.
M. Ehrensberger-Dow, “Investigating multilingual(s’) writing processes,” in Interdisciplinarity: thinking and writing beyond borders : proceedings from the 25th Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2008, 2010, pp. 59–82.
EHRENSBERGER-DOW, Maureen, 2010. Investigating multilingual(s‘) writing processes. In: Heather GRAVES und Roger GRAVES (Hrsg.), Interdisciplinarity: thinking and writing beyond borders : proceedings from the 25th Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2008. Conference paper. Edmonton: McCallum. 2010. S. 59–82. ISBN 978-0-9866269-0-6
Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen. 2010. “Investigating Multilingual(s’) Writing Processes.” Conference paper. In Interdisciplinarity: Thinking and Writing beyond Borders : Proceedings from the 25th Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2008, edited by Heather Graves and Roger Graves, 59–82. Edmonton: McCallum.
Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen. “Investigating Multilingual(s’) Writing Processes.” Interdisciplinarity: Thinking and Writing beyond Borders : Proceedings from the 25th Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2008, edited by Heather Graves and Roger Graves, McCallum, 2010, pp. 59–82.
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