Staffordshire lecturer’s illustrated activity book introduces students to research techniques
Because of the time students get to university, it’s going to probably have now been a few years simply because they came across an activity book that is illustrated.
But Writing Essays by Pictures is not any activity book that is ordinary. With a theme that is nautical it casts essays as icebergs and sources as sea creatures in a forward thinking try to introduce first-year students to the practice of academic research and writing.
Author Alke Grцppel-Wegener, senior lecturer in contextual studies at Staffordshire University, based the handsomely presented book on the essay-writing sessions with art and design students.
The book was launched this week and it is hoped that wider distribution will follow after raising nearly Ј2,000 from supporters on the Kickstarter crowdfunding website to fund an initial print run. המשך…
