Nonhlanhla P. KhumaloDurban University of Technology | dut · Writing Centre
Nonhlanhla P. Khumalo
PhD in Higher Education
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Nonhlanhla is dedicated to inspiring students’ academic success and believes that all students should get the support they need through the development of inclusive student engagement practices in Higher Education. Her research interests include academic literacies, first-year students’ experience and student support initiatives. She has presented papers at conferences and published articles on academic writing and writing centre pedagogy.
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The number of university students coming from rural areas has significantly increased in South Africa in the last two decades. While this is a positive sign of inclusive social growth and development, the fact that 70% of South African universities are still located in urban areas creates challenges for a number of these students. This is also comp...
The location of writing centres in universities has attracted attention from practitioners and researchers in the field of academic support scholarship. These writing centres, known as spaces where students discuss their writing ideas, have become part of the decoloniality discourse in South African higher education. This study adopts a mixed-metho...
Writing is a core staple of academic and discipline-specific discourses. Students, therefore, having entered the university, are required to demonstrate a minimum proficiency in academic writing as well as the potential to build upon effective academic discourse. Academic writing is thus vital to students' academic access, performance, and success....
Academic writing support initiatives have historically been conducted and designed around face-to-face interaction in physical spaces. Writing centre tutors have the role of critically interrogating academic discourse and practices that may lead to changes in norms and standards. This paper seeks to explore how writing centre tutors experienced the...
Background:
A diverse nursing workforce depends on whether higher education is accessible to historically disadvantaged students and whether such students are supported to achieve success. In South Africa, the Extended Curriculum Program (ECP) is a transition degree program created to widen access and success for underrepresented groups, including...
An important role in socialising first-year students into universities is initiating them into different conventions of academic writing. Support programmes, such as writing centres, have been established in several South African universities to help students with this objective and the broader issue of academic literacy. The assumption is that suc...
