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Genre exploration : a frame for understanding and teaching social work writing in Botswana

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Nkateng, Unity and Wharton, Sue (2014) Genre exploration : a frame for understanding and teaching social work writing in Botswana. Social work education : the international journal . doi:10.1080/02615479.2014.986088

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2014.986088

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Abstract

In Botswana, social workers are trained via a Bachelor’s degree or a Diploma in social work taught at the university (Osei-Hwedie et al. 2006). Their training includes professional writing and yet both new social workers and their managers report that new social workers experience significant difficulties when writing professional documents. This study looks at the issue from two perspectives. Firstly, it offers a detailed description of some of the texts which professional social workers in Botswana write, and the circumstances in which they do so. It finds that the documents studied are highly intertextual; that they exhibit certain regularities in terms of pragmatic moves through which they achieve a communicative purpose; and that language choices indicate a variety of positions which the social worker may adopt towards the client. Based on our description, we then discuss a pedagogic approach designed to help social work students gain their own critical understanding of the texts which they will write, and so be better prepared for the demands of the professional writing practices of which the texts form a part.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Social workers -- In-service training , Social workers' writings, Social workers -- Botswana
Journal or Publication Title: Social work education : the international journal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 0261-5479
Official Date: 24 December 2014
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24 December 2014Published
DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2014.986088
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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