讲座：Getting the ‘moves’: Writing an effective abstract and a publishable literature review & Policing in stressful situations: addressing impeded communicative competence under stress

主讲人：Dr. Terry Royce

讲座题目： Getting the ‘moves’: Writing an effective abstract and a publishable literature review

时间：10月20日下午 2:25-4:05

地点： 210室

摘要：This workshop will be an interactive, practical session focussing on two important texts in academic and research contexts: the conference abstract and the literature review.

Part 1: The conference presentation title and abstract

This will focus on the rhetorical ‘moves’ that need to be made for those preparing abstracts for either a conference, or for a journal article submission. The session will also cover the characteristics of an effective and ‘catchy’ presentation title. Example abstracts and titles will be presented, and participants will get the chance to apply the principles by drafting and then exchanging their own abstracts and titles.

Part 2: The Literature Review

This will look at the literature review as a genre, as an integral part of doctoral research, and as a publishable paper. Participants will be asked to bring along their ideas for a lit review and if possible a short-list of relevant references (not essential), and then apply the ideas presented through practical exercises and discussions. The session will cover what it means to write in a synthesised way, and what it means textually to have 'flow' in academic/research writing. The 4 main types of literature review will also be briefly covered, and will be linked back to the systematic literature review referred to in the police academy project discussed in the previous session.

讲座题目： Policing in stressful situations: addressing impeded communicative competence under stress

时间：10月21日上午10:00 – 12:00

地点：210室

摘要：At the police academy, cadets at certain stages in their training are required to demonstrate proficiency in the practical aspects of policing, often via the use of simulations which test previously gained theoretical knowledge in a realistic way. These simulations can be quite stressful, a typical example being physical training and assessment in the use of tactics, arms, and other techniques, ranging from weapon-less control of persons up to an including the use of Tasers and firearms. An important problem arising out of these simulations at the academy is that these high levels of stress can lead in some cases to impeded oral/aural communicative competence, and this can be even more of a problem when newly-appointed probationary constables need to be assessed in the use of these skills in the field, in real situations. This presentation reports on a recently completed project authorised by a Police Education and Training Command in Australia to investigate this issue of high levels of stress and a loss of communication and to suggest possible ways to address it. The findings and main recommendations arising from a needs analysis are over-viewed and discussed: the results of a systematic literature review and interviews with academy personnel and police officers based at Local Area Commands (LACs). A key focus will be on the recommendation for an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Program to meet the communicational needs of the police cadets and probationary officers.

主讲人简介

Dr. Terry Royce teaches in the Graduate Research School (GRS) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where he coordinates the Research Literacies Program for PhD students, and runs sessions in that area for Early Career Researchers (ECRs), and PhD supervisors across all faculties. Prior to joining UTS, he was Associate Professor (NY adjunct) and Program Director for the off-campus Teachers College, Columbia University Graduate Program. At UTS he supervises PhD students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in applied linguistics (forensic linguistics) and language education (TESOL). His research interests focus on forensic linguistics, multimodal text analysis, discourse and cohesion analysis across disciplines, and TESOL. His external teaching, consultancy, and research work is in forensic discourse analysis and forensic stylistics, where he has carried out questioned authorship analyses and forensic stylistic analyses for various private and governmental organizations as part of his consultancy at www.forlingua.com.  Through this consultancy he conducts professional development workshops for the Counter Terrorism and Special Tactics (CT&ST) Command in the NSW Police Service, focussing on research skills for the CT Strategy Unit, spoken communication in critical incident policing for the Negotiators Unit (State Protection Group), and written communication skills for the Security Management Unit (SMU). He also acts as an adjunct PhD supervisor for the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism (PICT) at Macquarie University. Terry’s research in forensic linguistics has been published in related academic journals, including the Harvard University Law School’s Negotiation Journal, the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (JPICT), the International Journal of Law, Language and Discourse (IJLLD), and the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.