Identity and agency: Exploring the relationship between theory and professional practice in Healthcare students' academic writing

随着高等教育职校课程的学术化，学生的写作需求日益受到关注。这些学生通常来自扩宽参与（WP）的背景，他们经常感到没有准备好处理课程要求的多种作业类型。本研究采用定性个案研究设计，探讨健康与社会关怀学科写作的本质，以及学生写作所面临的挑战。问卷调查，半结构化访谈和学生写作分析将用于收集数据。参与者将从英格兰东南一所大学的预科生和本科生中抽取，结果将为职业学生作家的经历提供重要见解。结论将为大学在支持和留住WP学生方面提供切实可行的建议，并将有助于英国教育中关于读写技能的更广泛辩论。本研究将通过考虑医疗保健学生作家所面临的语言挑战，并通过探索学生在处理理论、实践、身份和代理问题时所参与的更深层次的写作前过程，来补充现有文献。本研究将解决以下研究问题：1。医疗保健学生对理论与实践关系的看法是什么？（生活经验在多大程度上符合学术理论？）2.医疗保健专业的学生在他们的写作中表达这种关系的经验是什么？他们写作的时候是谁？他们在文化、专业和个人方面表现自己的自由度有多大？)3.学术素养干预在使学生作家对其写作中的身份、声音和代理问题敏感方面有多有效？我将采用一篇接一篇的方式，使用以下结构来探索关键主题：论文1：“人”——个人对理论与实践之间关系的理解，以及他们作为学生作家的认同感和能动性。论文2：“写作”——个人如何在写作中阐明理论与实践之间的关系，并就身份和代理问题进行协商。论文3：“学习环境”——学校如何支持学生写作论文1的工作计划背景阅读已经完成，文献综述正在起草中。明年的工作计划：完成伦理审批申请（2020年2月前）2020年4月前进行从“培训需求分析”中确定的培训设计问卷/访谈问题（2020年6月前）进行试点/初步访谈/问卷调查阶段的研究（2020年5月前）2020年6月前开始起草文献综述论文一论文一将于2021年6月完成，论文二将于2022-23年完成，论文三将于2023-24年完成，预计完成日期：2025年

With the increasing academisation of vocational courses in Higher Education (HE), attention is beingdrawn to the writing needs of students on vocational programmes. Often from widening-participation(WP) backgrounds, these students frequently feel unprepared to tackle the multiple assignment typesrequired by their courses. Adopting a qualitative case study design, this research explores the nature ofwriting in the discipline of Health and Social Care and the challenges facing student-writers.Questionnaires, semi structured interviews and analysis of student writing will be used to gather data.Participants will be drawn from foundation and undergraduate cohorts at a university in the S. E. ofEngland and results will provide important insights into the experiences of vocational student-writers.Conclusions will offer practical recommendations for universities in supporting and retaining WP students,and will contribute to wider debates about literacy skills in UK education. This research will add to the existing literature by considering the linguistic challenges faced byHealthcare student-writers,and also by exploring deeper pre-writing processes students engage in whennavigating issues of theory, practice, identity and agency. The study will address the following researchquestions:1.What are Healthcare students' perceptions of the relationship between theory and practice? (To whatextent does lived experience align with academic theory?) 2.What are Healthcare students' experiences of articulating this relationship in their writing? (Who arethey when they are writing? How free are they to represent themselves culturally, professionally,personally?) 3.How effective are academic literacy interventions in sensitising student-writers to issues of identity,voice and agency in their writing? I am adopting a thesis by-paper route using the following structure to explore key themes: Paper 1:'The person'-the individual's understanding of the relationship between theory and practice andtheir sense of identity and agency as student-writers.Paper 2:'The writing'-how the individual articulates the relationship between theory and practice in theirwriting and negotiates issues of identity and agency.Paper 3:'The learning environment(s)'-how the institution supports student-writers Schedule of work Background reading for Paper 1 is already complete and the literature review is being drafted. Plans for work over the next year: To complete ethical approval application (by February 2020)Undertake training identified from 'training needs analysis' by April 2020Design questionnaire/interview questions (by June 2020)To conduct pilot/initial interviews/questionnaire phase of research (by May 2020)To begin drafting Literature Review for paper one by June 2020Dates individual papers completed: Paper one to be drafted by June 2021Paper two to be drafted by 2022-23Paper three 2023-24Expected completion date: 2025