User:Hemridhu/sandbox/ADS

Lead/introductory paragraph
Academic discourse socialization is a form of language socialization through which newcomers or novices gain knowledge of the academic discourses by socializing and interacting with peers, experts, or more knowledgeable people in their community and social network. A dynamic and complex process, academic discourse socialization requires negotiation of both knowledge and one's identity. This kind of interaction is defined as a bidirectional process in which both novice learners and experts learn from one another.

Early work and major contributions
Over the last two decades, the field of applied linguistics has given renewed attention in academic discourse socialization, especially disciplinary socialization of second language students. A growing body of research has explored socialization experiences of both first and second language learners through oral discourses, such as academic presentations, small group discussions and student-teacher individual conferences for feedback on writing. To understand the complex processes that academic discourse socialization entails, some studies have also explored students' out of class interactions. For instance, Seloni investigated the role of out of class collaboration of first year doctoral students in facilitating their socialization. While some studies revealed that out of class collaborations are effective and have a positive effect on socialization experiences, others demonstrated that these collaborations are not always favorable. Recently, written interactions (feedback) have also gained some attention in the field and increased our understanding on the impact of feedback as a social practice on students. Technology-mediated academic discourse socialization have also become more common with the increasing use of digital tools, such as discussion forums, google docs, blogs and wikipedia in higher education.

Function and Process
Academic Discourse Socialization is an investment in which learners get academic and emotional support as a return and peers play an important role in providing this support. Peers are also called literacy brokers and could be someone who is going through the same process, they don't necessarily have to be experts. Peer support both inside and outside of the classroom help learners gain knowledge of their disciplinary discourses.

Shifting from individual to collaborative work and building a social network expands understanding of the textbook and discourses. Academic presentations also provide a good context to socialize into oral discourses and culture of discourse communities. Socialization through small group discussions allows learners to draw ideas from their prior and existing knowledge and understand a new concept. Given the affordances of digital tools, asynchronous discussions are also considered a good place for academic discourse socialization and literacy development, provided these discussions are graded, carefully designed and pay attention to learners' agency.

Dr. Vetter's Comments -
Great work !

Lead: I made a few changes to style and punctuation in the lead. Overall it's well done. Are you planning on integrating this into the existing lead or replacing? Footnotes always go immediately after the period of a sentence in which the source is used. And then a space before new sentence is needed. Create wikilinks for important concepts related to the topic at hand (for instance, language, identity and academic could be wikilinked in the lead). A brief explanation of how "academic" is conceptualized in ADS might be useful in the second section.

Second section, In the second section, I also made changes related to placement of periods/footnotes, and a few small stylistic things. I would title this section something like "Function and process" since it seems to be further explaining how academic discourse socialization works.

I think you're doing a nice job generally here. But I would try to be consistent with the terms that you use to describe the academic community. Overall great work. This would definitely meet the requirements of the assignment. If you can get to 300 words, even better!

DarthVetter (talk)

Thank you so much, Dr. Vetter. Hemridhu (talk) 19:58, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

I just did some of the changes you recommended and added one paragraph on "A brief overview of major contributions" (around 200 words) I have yet to create wikilinks to some of the terms you suggested plus conceptualizing academic in ADS. I would like to discuss these two things with you and then apply the changes here. Thank you so much for your support thus far. I am really enjoying working on this article. Hemridhu (talk) 19:55, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi - Great. I'm so glad my feedback was helpful. We can talk more about the wikilinks, and you can even do those AFTER you contribute this stuff to the actual article. I can show how to do wikilinks at our class meeting on Wednesday.

DarthVetter (talk) 14:24, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi - most wikilinks are done except for academic. I was also thinking of creating a new page wherein I can add a paragraph or so on academic discourses and then create a wikilink. I think understanding discourses and academic discourses is important before anybody jumps onto academic discourse socialization. What do you think? Can you also provide me feedback on the second section which I added later after receiving your feedback?Hemridhu (talk) 11:23, 20 March 2021 (UTC)