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Ms Ursula McGowan
To link to this page, please use the following URL: Biography/ BackgroundQualifications MA (German) Adelaide Diploma of Education, University of Adelaide Graduate Diploma of Education - Multicultural Education, University of New England, Armidale. Sessional Staff Development My main role in the CLPD is to provide specially tailored Faculty- or School-based Sessional Staff Development options on request by Heads of Schools or Course / Tutor Coordinators. My work includes collaboration with staff in developing and delivering programs for academics with specific learning and teaching requirements, including spoken language for NESB lecturers and approaches to preempting student plagiarism. My professional experience includes a decade as Lecturer in German Language and Literature as well as a background in teaching and administration of programs in English as a Second Language, in Multicultural Education and in coordinating the Academic Language and Learning Service for students at Adelaide University. I draw on this background to provide workshops, both in CLPD and for Discipline- School- or Faculty-specific groups, in the of areas of internationalisation, diversity and preempting student plagiarism I provide support for Discipline- School- or Faculty-based Sessional Teaching programs, with workshops ranging from 2 or 3 hours to 6 hours, as requested; and by promoting and maintaining an online Sessional Teaching Program Resource, consisting of a series of 12 self-access modules, at www.adelaide.edu.au/sesional/stp Spoken Language Strategies for Teaching staff fron non-English speaking Backgrounds I provide introductory and follow-up workshops for staff who seek help in modifying their spoken language for lectures or tutorials. See: I employ a scholarly approach to promote the University's Strategic Plan for "Building a Great Research University" particularly in the areas of internationalisation and in assisting an understanding of the University's reseach culture at undergraduate level. I have therefore provided on the CLPD website a short audio-presentation for staff to use with their classes in connection with written assignments as a positive, achievement-focussed approach to reducing students' inadvertent plagiarism It is entitled: Avoiding Plagiarism - Achieving Academic Writing: Research focus My current research focus is on piloting and evaluating an approach for assisting staff in inducting undergraduate students into the language and culture of research. My particular emphasis is to investigate to what extent discipline lecturers may assist students in developing skills in evidence-based writing through constructive feedback against probing assessment criteria. Publications
Bretag, T; Mahmud, S; Wallace, M; Walker, R; James, C; Green, M; East, J; McGowan, U; Partridge, L. (2011) Core elements of exemplary academic integrity policy in Australian higher education. International Journal for Educational Integrity v.7 No 2 pp 3-12 http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/IJEI/issue/view/135 (accessed 15/12/2011) Bretag, T., Mahmud, S., East, J., Green, M., James, C., McGowan, U., Partridge, L., Walker, R.& Wallace, M. (2011) Academic Integrity Standards: A Preliminary Analysis of the Academic Integrity Policies at Australian Universities. Proceedings of AuQF 2011. Tertiary Education Quality Standards, AUQA Audit archive:http://www.teqsa.gov.au/audit-archive http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/127066/20110826-0004/www.auqa.edu.au/auqf/2011/proceedings/index.html (Best Paper Award) McGowan, U. (2010) Re-defining academic teaching in terms of research apprenticeship. In M. Devlin, J. Nagy and A. Lichtenberg (Eds.) Research and Development in Higher Education: Reshaping Education, 33 (pp. 481-489). Melbourne 6-9 July 2010. http://www.herdsa.org.au/?page_id=1371#M McGowan, U. (2009a) Research Apprenticeship: Is this the answer to inadvertent plagiarism in undergraduate students’ writings? Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity. Wollongong, September 29-30 http://ro.uow.edu.au/apcei/09/papers/34/ Accessed 16/3/10 McGowan, U. (2009b) Undergraduate Students as Apprentice Researchers: Developing the Language of enquiry-based writing. Presentation at the Learning Through Enquiry Alliance (LTEA) Conference, University of Reading, UK, July 14-15. McGowan, U. (2009c) Book Review: Pedagogy not policing. Positive approaches to academic integrity at the university. Tyra Twomey, Holly White and Ken Sagendorf (Eds.). (2009). Syracuse, New York. International Journal for Educational Integrity 5(1) pp . 35-37 http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/IJEI/issue/view/95 McGowan, U. & O'Regan, K. (2008) Avoiding Plagiarism: Achieving Academic Writing. Audio narrated resource for students and staff. The University of Adelaide CLPD website http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/plagiarism/ . Direct link accessed at: McGowan, U. (2008a). Research-writing: Learning a writing skill and thereby avoiding plagiarism http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/teaching/resources/ McGowan, U. (2008b) Higher education – for what – when students are linguistically outside their ‘zone of proximal development’?. In: Student Learning for what? Proceedings of the 15th Improving Student Learning Symposium. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 3–5 September 2007. McGowan, U. (2008c) International Students: A conceptual framework for dealing with unintentional plagiarism. In: Tim S. Roberts (ed.) Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems and Solutions. Information Science Reference, Hershey, New York, pp. 92-107 (This book is available online from the Barr Smith Library to UofA members). For publisher see: McGowan, U. (2007ba) Plugging a hole in holistic institutional approaches to plagiarism: A focus on research. In: Tracey Bretag et al. Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity. Adelaide, December 6-7 (refereed) http://www.unisa.edu.au/educationalintegrity/conference/proceedings.asp McGowan, U. (2007b) Internationalisation of the Curriculum: meeting the challenge of student diversity. In: Enhancing Higher Education, Theory and Scholarship Proceedings of the 30th HERDSA Annual Conference, Adelaide, 8-11 July, 2007. Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Inc. (on disc and website) http://www.herdsa.org.au/ McGowan, U. (2005a) Does educational integrity mean teaching students NOT to ‘use their own words’? International Journal for Educational Integrity1(1) (refereed) http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/IJEI/article/view/16/6 McGowan, U. (2005b). Educational Integrity: A Strategic Approach to Anti-Plagiarism. In: Charmian Eckersley (ed) Educational Integrity: Values in Teaching, Learning and Research. 2nd Asia-Pacific Educational Integrity Conference Proceedings. ISBN 192 070 1680. (Conference held in Newcastle, Australia Dec 1-3). (referred) http://www.newcastle.edu.au/conference/apeic/papers.html McGowan, U. (2005c). Academic Integrity: an Awareness and Development Issue for Students and Staff. Journal for University Teaching and Learning Practice v2 (3a). (refereed) Retrieved November 10, 2005 from http://jutlp.uow.edu.au McGowan, U. (2005d). Plagiarism detection and prevention. Are we putting the cart before the horse?. In A. Brew & C. Asmar (Eds.), Higher Education in a Changing World. Proceedings of the HERDSA Conference. Sydney. Pp 287-293. Online version retrieved August 15, 2005 from http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2005/paper_index.cfm McGowan, U. (2003) Plagiarism detection and prevention. Pedagogical implications for lecturers of first year university students. In: Enhancing the Transition to Higher Education. Strategies and Policies that work. Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference, QUT, Brisbane. July 9-11 (refereed) http://www.fyhe.qut.edu.au/past_papers/papers03.htm McGowan, U (2002) 'Metaphors in the media: Helping ESL students to overcome barriers to understanding media texts'. In Cadman, K. (ed) Learners from Diverse Cultures. Advancing Australia's Potential. Proceedings of the National ACTA/ESLE Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, Jan 20-22, 2002 (on CD-ROM). Cargill, M. Cadman, K. & McGowan, U. (2001) Postgraduate Writing: Using Intersecting Genres in a Collaborative, Content-Based program. In: Ilona Leki, (ed) Academic Writing Programs. Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series. Jill Burton Series Editor. pp 85-96. TESOL. Alexandria, Virginia. McGowan, U. (2000) Can the writing of theses and research papers be taught generically? Supporting self-help in postgraduates. Paper presented at the Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference 'Making ends Meet' Adelaide, April 13-14. http://www.qpr.edu.au/2000/mcgowan2000.pdf McGowan, U. (1998) A program in media language for Economics I students. in: Advancing International Perspectives. Proceedings of the HERDSA Annual International Conference, Adelaide, 8-11 July (CD-ROM). McGowan, U. (1997) Metaphor and congruence in the media: barriers for international students of Economics and Commerce. in: Prospect: A Journal of Australian TESOL. vol 12 No 1 May 1997 pp. 20-34. McGowan, U., Seton, J. & Cargill, M. (1996) A collaborating colleague model for inducting international engineering students into the language and culture of a foreign research in Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Transactions on Professional Education (Vol 39 No 3 September 1996 pp. 117-121). McGowan, U. (1991) The Administrative-Professional Interface: Pennington Education Centre. Paper presented at the 1986 AMEP National Curriculum Project Seminar in: Implementing the Learner-centred Curriculum, National Curriculum Project, Research Series, NCRC, Adelaide, 125:137 (second edition NCELTR, Sydney: 125) *** Files
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