Dr Celia Thompson
Convener of IAP (Intensive Academic Program)
Contact details
Phone +61 3 8344 5488
Email: celiat@ unimelb.edu.au
Office: Babel Building 614
Biography
Celia Thompson studied French, German and Russian before lecturing in English as a Second Language and Communication. She completed her undergraduate studies in French language and European literature at the University of Warwick in the UK. She has also studied German in Munich and Bremen and Russian language and culture in St Petersburg. Celia undertook Postgraduate Certificates in Teaching and Counselling and an R.S.A. Diploma in TEFLA before completing her MA studies in Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. The title of Celia's PhD thesis is 'Plagiarism or intertextuality? A study of the politics of knowledge, identity and textual ownership in undergraduate writing'.
Research Interests
Teaching and learning in higher education
Language and Identity
Plagiarism and intertextuality
Professional communication
Web 2.0 technologies and assessment
Teaching Responsibilities
175-120 Advanced English 1
175-550 Intensive Academic Program
175-108 Intercultural Communication (2008)
175-501 Presenting Academic Discourse for Engineering
University Breadth Subject: Professional Communicating
(‘Transcultural Communication’ module in preparation)
Works in progress
Gray, K., Thompson, C., Sheard, J. Clerehan, R., Dick, M. & Hamilton, M. (under review, 2009). Web 2.0 authoring tools in higher education learning and teaching: New directions for assessment and academic integrity. (Computers in Education)
Thompson, C. (in preparation, 2009). Prosumers, politics and plagiarism: Collaborative writing using wikis in postgraduate Engineering language teaching. Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference: ‘Same Places, Different Spaces', University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology, Dec. 2009.
Thompson, C. (in press, 2009). Plagiarism, intertextuality and the politics of knowledge, identity and textual ownership in undergraduate ESL/EFL students’ academic writing. In L.H. Phan & B. Baurain (Eds.). Crossing cultures: Journeys in ESL/EFL Writing. Pearson, Longman, Malaysia.
Thompson, C. (in press, 2009). Plagiarism, intertextuality and emergent authorship in university students’ academic writing. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, January 2009.
‘The Space Between: Languages, Translations and Cultures’: Special Issue edited by Vera Mackie, Ikuko Nakane, and Emi Otsuji. ISSN: 1449-2490: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal. PORTAL is published under the auspices of UTSePress, Sydney, Australia.
Publications
Thompson, C. (2009). Critical thinking: What is it and how do we teach it in English for academic purposes (EAP) programs? In Brandt, C., Read, research and write: Academic skills for ESL students in higher education (pp. 191-198). Sage Study Skills: London & California. Reprinted from HERDSA Annual International Conference, Melbourne, 12-15 July 1999.
Gray, K., Thompson, C., Clerehan, R., Sheard, J. & Hamilton, M. (2008). Web 2.0 authorship: Issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity. The Internet and Higher Education, Vol 11, pp. 112-118.
Thompson, C. (2008). ‘Dialogism’ and social computing: Academic authorship in cyberspace. In McConachie, J., Singh, M., Danaher, P. A., Nouwens, F. & Danaher, G., (Eds.), Changing university learning and teaching: Engaging and mobilising leadership, quality and technology (pp. 359-374). Post Pressed: Queensland, Australia.
Thompson, C. & Pennycook, A. (2008). A question of dialogues: Authorship, authority, plagiarism. Education Canada. Canada Education Association. 3 (48): 20-23.
Thompson, C. & Pennycook, A. (2008). Intertextuality in the transcultural contact zone. In R. Moore Howard & A. E. Robillard (Eds.), Pluralizing plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies (pp. 124-139). Boynton-Cook, Heinemann: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.
Thompson, C. (2006). Plagiarism or intertextuality? A study of the politics of knowledge, identity and textual ownership in undergraduate student writing. PhD thesis. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Available from: http://adt.caul.edu.au
Thompson, C. (2005). 'Authority is everything': A study of the politics of textual ownership and knowledge in the formation of student writer identities. International Journal for Educational Integrity, Vol. 1, No. 1 (12 pages). Retrieved on February 21st, 2006 from: http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/journals/index.php/IJEI
Chandrasoma, R., Thompson, C. and Pennycook, A. (2004) 'Beyond plagiarism: Transgressive and non-transgressive intertextuality'. Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 171-193.
Thompson, C. (2004). 'What is originality?' Postgraduate Review. University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC: University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association Press, Vol. 10, No. 3, p. 23.
Ransom, L., Thompson, C., Grove, E. & Sarvananthan R. (2004). The automated DELA assessment module. FutureTec Business Solutions. Melbourne, Australia.
Thompson, C. (2004). Plagiarism, intertextuality and patchwriting: A pedagogical perspective. In H. Marsden & M. Hicks (Eds.), Educational integrity: Plagiarism and other perplexities. The full proceedings of the first national conference on educational integrity, University of South Australia, 21-22 November 2003, Adelaide, South Australia.
Thompson, C. (2003). 'Constructing critical discourse and student academic writing'. In ANZCA Online Journal (ed. Mary Power). Refereed articles from the Proceedings of the ANZCA 2003 Conference, QUT, Brisbane, Queensland, July 9-11, 2003.
Thompson, C. (2002). 'Discourses on plagiarism in the academy: To discipline and punish or to teach and learn?' In ANZCA Online Journal (ed. Mary Power). Refereed articles from the Proceedings of the ANZCA 2002 Conference on 'Communication: Reconstructed for the 21st Century', Broadbeach, Queensland, July 10-12, 2002.
Thompson, C. (2002). 'Teaching critical thinking in English for academic purposes courses in Australia'. TESOL Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 15-20.
Thompson, C. (2000). Critical literacy and text selection in English for academic purposes courses. Prospect: A Journal of Australian TESOL, 15, 2, (pp. 39-47).
Thompson, C. (2000). Critical literacy, cultural inclusiveness and text selection in English for academic purposes courses. Conference proceedings (ed. Colin Symes) published by the Research into Adult and Vocational Learning (RAVL) 'Working Knowledge' conference (December 10-13, 2000) held by the Faculty of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, pp. 439-444. ISBN 1 86365 2876.
Thompson, C. (2000). Comments on Molly Farquharson's 'Plagiarism: Still rearing its ugly head'. TESOL Journal 9 (4), 41.
Grants
Carrick Institute Priority Projects Program (2008). Full proposal: Web 2.0 authoring tools in higher education learning and teaching: New directions for assessment and academic integrity. (preparing for resubmission in 2009)
Co-authored as a cross-institutional proposal with: Dr Kathleen Gray (Project Leader), Lecturer, Biomedical Multimedia Unit, University of Melbourne; Associate Professor Rosemary Clerehan, Director, International Postgraduate Academic Support, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University; Dr Martin Dick, Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Leader, School of Business Information Technology, RMIT University; Dr Margaret Hamilton, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University; Dr Judithe Sheard, Senior Lecturer, Director of MIT and MNC (minor thesis) degrees, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University.
Orton, J., Swart, R., Isaac, A. and Thompson, C. (1995). The Rhythm of Language: Developing L2 speaking skills. Funded by a National Teaching Development Grant, University of Melbourne, Australia
Knowledge Transfer
Celia is currently providing Professional Communication Development Training for Investigations Officers at the Telecommunications Ombudsman Industry in Melbourne.