A Cup of Tea and a Chat.
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first year students, academic writing, dialogical feedbackAbstract
Offering dialogic feedback can help first year students make connections, both in terms of belonging and in relation to their academic writing skills. In this piece, I discuss how offering short formative feedback sessions through dialogue on a BA Social Work degree Apprenticeship Course, appeared to support student’s sense of belonging and helped to reduce anxiety in ‘letting go’ of their first academic piece of writing.
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