1st International Symposium on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking

16th February, 2013Nagoya University

Programme
08:30 ~Registration
Plenary & Invited Talks (Chair: Prof. Paul W. L. Lai)

09:00 ~ 10:20

10:30 ~ 11:30

11:30 ~ 12:30

12:30 ~ 14:00

Location: Conference Hall, Bunkei Sogo-kan 7F

Plenary Talk
A Logical Thinking Approach Towards Teaching Academic Writing
By Prof. Paul W. L. Lai (Director, Mei-Writing, Nagoya University)
Invited Talk
“What’s a writing center?” to “What’s in the writing center?”: Traditions, Trends, and Tutoring
By Prof. Leigh Ryan (Director, The Writing Center, University of Maryland)
Invited Talk
Integrating Writing with Critical Thinking: First-Year Undergraduate Writing Programs at theUniversity of Tokyo
By Prof. Tom Gally (Managing Director, The ALESS Program, University of Tokyo)
Lunch(Ask a conference staff for a list of restaurants around the campus).
Oral Presentation in English - Session 1 (Chair: Prof. Simon Potter)

Location: Open Hall, Bunkei Sogo-kan 7F

14:00 ~14:25

Data Laundry-Listing: When Student Writers Lack a Foundational Argument
By Thomas Kabara (Nagoya University)

14:30 ~14:55

Academic Writing with Substance
By John Wojdylo (Nagoya University)
Academic Writing in a Liberal Arts Curriculum in Asia: Culture and Criteria
By Paul Wadden and Chris Carl Hale (International Christian University)

15:00 ~15:25

Oral Presentation in English - Session 2 (Chair: Prof. Chad Nilep)
14:00 ~14:25
14:30 ~14:55

15:00 ~15:25

Location: Faculty Lounge, Bunkei Sogo-kan 6F

Assessing Academic Writing with Text-Responsible Writing Tasks
By Katerina Petchko and James Elwood (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
Research Question or Thesis Statement: How Should We Proceed with Research?
A Perspective from the Logical Approach to Academic Writing
By Nathan Hamlitsch (Nagoya University)"A four-stage blended approach for scaffolding basic argumentative competence"
By David Gann (Gunnma Prefectural Women's University)
Oral Presentation in Chinese (Chair: Prof. Jian Lu)

Location: Room 705, Bunkei Sogo-kan 7F

14:00 ~14:25

关于汉关于汉语学术论文写作
术论文写作课
文写作课程的设程的设置 「中国語学術論文ライティング講座の設置について」
By 卢建 (名古屋大学)

14:30 ~14:55

尽信书，则不如无书—逆向思维与科学研究 「尽く書を信ぜば、書無きに如かず―逆転の発想と科学的研究」
By 张国宪 (中国社会科学院语言所)言所)

15:00 ~15:30

Discussion

Oral Presentation in French (Chair: Prof. Nicolas Baumert)
14:00 ~14:25

Location: Room 609, Bunkei Sogo-kan 6FL’enseignement de l’écriture à buts académiques : entre logique, culture et maîtrise de la langue「アカデミックの目的でのライティング教育 －論理、文化、語学習得を通して－」

By Nicolas Baumert (Université de Nagoya
14:30 ~14:55

名古屋大学)Les différences dans l'organisation des écrits académiques entre le français et le japonais「フランス語と日本語のアカデミックな文章の構成上の違い」

By Yumi Takagaki
15:00 ~ 15:30

高垣由美 (Université Préfectorale d'Osaka 大阪府立大学)

Discussion
Oral Presentation in German (Chair: Prof. Markus Rude)

14:00 ~14:10
14:10 ~14:30

Location: Room 623, Bunkei Sogo-kan 6F)

Introduction
Textsortenbewusstheit als Lehrziel, Schreibdidaktik in mehrsprachigen Kontexten「教育目標としてのテキストタイプの識別 ― 多言語コンテクストにおける作文教授法」

14:30 ~14:50

By Alexander Imig (Chukyo University)
Textkomposition/Schreiben von japanischen DaFremdsprachelernenden – Spuren
der kulturellen Prägung 「日本人のドイツ語学習者によるテキスト構成／執筆－文化的要素の影響」
By Maria Gabriela SCHMIDT (Tsukuba University)

15:00 ~15:30

Discussion on teaching Academic Writing in German language in Japan (In German)

15:30 ~ 16:00

Coffee BreakRound Table Discussion (Chair: Prof. Kazuhisa Todayama)

Location: Conference Hall, Bunkei Sogo-kan 7F

16:00 ~ 18:00

Why Academic Writing Education needs Critical Thinking Education
Discussants: Tom Gally, Paul Lai, Leigh Ryan, …

18:00

Symposium Closing

19:00

Dinner