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Twiner, A.; Littleton, K.; Whitelock, D. and Coffin, C. (2021). Combining sociocultural discourse analysis and multimodal analysis to explore teachers' and pupils' meaning making. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 30 Part A, article no. 100520.

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Twiner, Alison; Major, Louis and Wegerif, Rupert (2021). ‘Collaborating2Create’: A conceptual tool to develop learners’ capacity for collaborative creativity through Virtual Internships in schools. Online repository of the American Educational Research Association.

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Lillis, Theresa; Leedham, Maria and Twiner, Alison (2020). Time, the Written Record, and Professional Practice: The Case of Contemporary Social Work. Written Communication, 37(4) pp. 431–486.

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Leedham, Maria; Lillis, Theresa and Twiner, Alison (2020). Exploring the core ‘preoccupation’ of social work writing: A corpus-assisted discourse study. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 3 pp. 1–26.

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Scanlon, Eileen; Anastopoulou, Stamatina; Conole, Grainne and Twiner, Alison (2019). Interdisciplinary Working Methods: Reflections Based on Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). Frontiers in Education, 4, article no. 134.

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Cremin, Teresa and Twiner, Alison (2019). Less is More – focusing on feedback. Teachers as Writers.

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Leedham, Maria; Lillis, Theresa and Twiner, Alison (2019). Exploring the core ‘preoccupation’ of professional social work writing: A corpus-assisted discourse study. In: International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019, 26-29 Jul 2019, Cardiff University, UK.

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Whitelock, D.; Twiner, A.; Richardson, J. T. E.; Field, D. and Pulman, S. (2018). What does a "good" essay look like? Rainbow diagrams representing essay quality. In: Technology Enhanced Assessment (TEA 2017). Communications in Computer and Information Science (Ras, E. and Guerrero Roldán, A. eds.), Springer, Cham, 829 pp. 1–12.

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Cooper, Victoria; Narzisi, Katia; Simons, Joan; Tatlow-Golden, Mimi and Twiner, Alison (2018). Theory And Empirical Research Of Children And Young People And Digital Food/Health Literacy. In: 2nd Digital Health and Wellbeing Conference, 1-3 May 2018, Open University, Milton Keynes.

Tatlow-Golden, M.; Twiner, A.; Hollywood, L.; Hennessy, E. and Dean, M. (2018). “They were saying it was delicious”: Very young children’s understanding of food advertising. In: 2nd Digital Health and Wellbeing Conference, 1-3 May 2018, Open University, Milton Keynes.

Leedham, Maria; Lillis, Theresa and Twiner, Alison (2018). Creating a corpus of social workers’ writing: Methodological challenges, representational issues and analytical concerns. In: 4th Corpora and Discourse International Conference, 22-24 Jun 2018, Lancaster University.

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Lillis, Theresa; Leedham, Maria and Twiner, Alison (2017). Writing in contemporary social work: texts, technologies and trajectories. In: BAAL2017: British Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, 31 Aug - 02 Sep 2017, University of Leeds, UK.

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Whitelock, Denise; Twiner, Alison; Richardson, John T. E.; Field, Debora and Pulman, Stephen (2017). What types of essay feedback influence implementation: Structure alone or structure and content? In: Technology Enhanced Assessment (TEA 2016). Communications in Computer and Information Science. (Joosten-ten Brinke, D. and Laanpere, M. eds.), Springer, Cham, 653 pp. 181–196.

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Lillis, Theresa; Leedham, Maria and Twiner, Alison (2017). ‘If it’s not written down it didn’t happen’: Contemporary social work as a writing intensive profession. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 14(1) pp. 29–52.

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Lillis, Theresa; Leedham, Maria and Twiner, Alison (2016). Combining ethnography and corpus to research writing practices in social work: challenges and opportunities in methodology, epistemology and application. In: ALAPP 2016 (Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Conference), 3-5 Nov 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Lillis, T.; Leedham, M.; Twiner, A.; Moore, J. and Whitehead, M. (2016). ‘If it’s not written down it didn’t happen’: Social worker perspectives on contemporary writing and recording demands. In: Joint Social Work Education and Research Conference (JSWEC) 2016, 15 Jul 2016, Milton Keynes.

Whitelock, Denise; Twiner, Alison; Richardson, John T. E.; Field, Debora and Pulman, Stephen (2015). OpenEssayist: a supply and demand learning analytics tool for drafting academic essays. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge, ACM, pp. 208–212.

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Whitelock, Denise; Twiner, Alison; Richardson, John T. E.; Field, Debra and Pulman, Stephen (2015). Feedback on Academic Essay Writing through pre-Emptive Hints: Moving Towards "Advice for Action". In: Best of EDEN RW8 (Special issue of the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning) (Bernath, U. and Szücs, A. eds.), European Distance and E-Learning Network, Budapest pp. 1–15.

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Twiner, Alison; Littleton, Karen; Coffin, Caroline and Whitelock, Denise (2014). Meaning making as an interactional accomplishment: a temporal analysis of intentionality and improvisation in classroom dialogue. International Journal of Educational Research, 63 pp. 94–106.

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Whitelock, Denise; Twiner, Alison; Richardson, John T. E.; Field, Debora and Pulman, Stephen (2014). OpenEssayist: real-life testing of an automated feedback system for draft essay writing. In: #design4learning: from blended learning to learning analytics in HE, 26-27 Nov 2014, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Jones, Ann; Scanlon, Eileen; Gaved, Mark; Blake, Canan; Collins, Trevor; Clough, Gill; Kerawalla, Lucinda; Littleton, Karen; Mulholland, Paul; Petrou, Marilena and Twiner, Alison (2013). Challenges in personalisation: supporting mobile science inquiry learning across contexts. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 8(1) pp. 21–42.

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Scanlon, Eileen; Blake, Canan; Twiner, Alison; Collins, Trevor; Jones, Ann and Kerawalla, Lucinda (2011). Collaboration in communities of inquirers: an example from a geography field trip. In: 9th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, 04-08 Jul 2011, Hong Kong.

Mercer, Neil; Gillen, Julia; Kleine Staarman, Judith; Littleton, Karen and Twiner, Alison (2011). Interactive whiteboards: does new technology transform teaching? In: Ludvigsen, Sten R.; Lund, Andreas; Rasmussen, Ingvill and Säljö, Roger eds. Learning across sites: new tools, infrastructures and practices. London: Routledge, pp. 346–363.

Twiner, Alison (2011). Sociocultural understandings of technology-mediated educational practices: improvable objects and meaning-making trajectories in the ICT-literate classroom. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Gaved, Mark; Collins, Trevor; Mulholland, Paul; Kerawalla, Lucinda; Jones, Ann; Scanlon, Eileen; Littleton, Karen; Blake, Canan; Petrou, Marilena; Clough, Gill and Twiner, Alison (2010). Using netbooks to support mobile learners' investigations across activities and places. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25(3) pp. 187–200.

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Twiner, Alison; Coffin, Caroline; Littleton, Karen and Whitelock, Denise (2010). Multimodality, orchestration and participation in the context of classroom use of the interactive whiteboard: a discussion. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 19(2) pp. 211–223.

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Scanlon, Eileen; Kerawalla, Lucinda; Twiner, Alison; Mulholland, Paul; Collins, Trevor; Jones, Ann; Gaved, Mark; Littleton, Karen; Blake, Canan and Conole, Grainne (2010). Personal Inquiry: scripting support for inquiry learning by participatory design. In: Computer-Based Learning in Science, 7-10 Jul 2010, Warsaw, Poland.

Littleton, Karen; Twiner, Alison and Gillen, Julia (2010). Instruction as orchestration: multimodal connection building with the interactive whiteboard. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 5(2) pp. 130–141.

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Kerawalla, Lucinda; Scanlon, Eileen; Jones, Ann; Littleton, Karen; Mulholland, Paul; Collins, Trevor; Twiner, Alison; Clough, Gill; Blake, Canan; Petrou, Marilena; Conole, Grainne and Gaved, Mark (2010). Being a Geographer: the role of mobile, scripted inquiry in mediating embodied meaning-making during Geography fieldtrips. In: 9th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mlearn 2010), 19-22 Oct 2010, Valletta, Malta.

Twiner, Alison (2010). Interactive whiteboards and the discourses of transformation, affordance, orchestration and participation. In: Thomas, Michael and Schmid, Euline Cutrim eds. Interactive Whiteboards for Education: Theory, Research and Practice. Hershey, New York: Information Science Reference, pp. 37–52.

Cook, Guy; Reed, Matt and Twiner, Alison (2009). "But it's all true!": commercialism and commitment in the discourse of organic food promotion. Text and Talk, 29(2) pp. 151–173.

Twiner, Alison; Cook, Guy and Gillen, Julia (2009). Overlooked issues of religious identity in the school dinners debate. Cambridge Journal of Education, 39(4) pp. 473–488.

Anastopoulou, S.; Kerwalla, L.; Littleton, K.; Ainsworth, S.; Twiner, A. and Conole, G. (2009). Facilitating the expression of learner voices in the participatory design of technology to support inquiry learning. In: CAL 2009 Learning in Digital Worlds, Mar 2008, Brighton.

Kerawalla, L.; Scanlon, E.; Jones, A.; Collins, T.; Conole, G.; Littleton, K.; Mulholland, P.; Twiner, A.; Tosunoglu Blake, C. and Gaved, Mark (2009). Characterising participation trajectories and the negotiation of personalised inquiry learning in the secondary school geography classroom. In: British Educational Research Association, Sep 2009, Manchester, UK.

Kerawalla, Lucinda; Scanlon, Eileen; Twiner, Alison; Jones, Ann; Littleton, Karen; Conole, Grainne; Mulholland, Paul; Collins, Trevor; Blake, Canan; Clough, Gill and Gaved, Mark (2009). Technological mediation of personal inquiry in UK GCSE geography: opportunities and challenges. In: CAL09 - Learning in Digital Worlds, 23-25 Mar 2009, Brighton, UK.

Collins, Trevor; Gaved, Mark; Mulholland, Paul; Kerawalla, Cindy; Twiner, Alison; Scanlon, Eileen; Jones, Ann; Littleton, Karen; Conole, Grainne and Blake, Canan (2008). Supporting location-based inquiry learning across school, field and home contexts. In: Proceedings of the MLearn 2008 Conference, 7-10 Oct 2008, Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, UK.

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Twiner, Alison; Banyard, Philip and Underwood, Jean (2008). Transition between educational sectors and discontinuities of ICT resource and pedagogy. Computers in the Schools, 24(3-4) pp. 139–152.

Scanlon, Eileen; Jones, Ann; Collins, Trevor; Conole, Grainne; Gaved, Mark; Kerawalla, Lucinda; Littleton, Karen; Mulholland, Paul; Twiner, Alison and Blake, Canan (2008). Investigating personal inquiry: An activity theory approach. In: Proceedings of mLearn, 8-10 Oct 2008, Wolverhampton, UK.

Gillen, J.; Littleton, K.; Twiner, A.; Staarman, J. K. and Mercer, N. (2007). Using the interactive whiteboard to resource continuity and support multimodal teaching in a primary science classroom. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 24(4) pp. 348–358.

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Gillen, Julia; Kleine Staarman, Judith; Littleton, Karen; Mercer, Neil and Twiner, Alison (2007). A “learning revolution”? Investigating pedagogic practices around interactive whiteboards in British Primary classrooms. Learning, Media and Technology, 32(3) pp. 243–256.

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Twiner, Alison; Gillen, Julia; Kleine Staarman, Judith; Littleton, Karen and Mercer, Neil (2007). Orchestration with the interactive whiteboard: provisionality and permanence. In: ALT-C 2007: Beyond Control: Association of Learning Technologies Conference, 4-6 Sep 2007, Nottingham, UK.

Littleton, Karen; Twiner, Alison; Gillen, Julia; Kleine Staarman, Judith and Mercer, Neil (2007). Orchestration with the Interactive Whiteboard. In: Developing Potentials for Learning 12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, 28 Aug - 1 Sep 2007, University of Szeged, Budapest.

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Underwood, Jean; Dillon, Gayle; Farnsworth, Bill and Twiner, Alison (2007). Reading the road: the influence of age and sex on child pedestrians' perceptions of road risk. British Journal of Psychology, 98(1) pp. 93–110.

Beishuizen, Jos; Van Boxel, Patris; Banyard, Philip; Twiner, Alison; Vermeij, Helle and Underwood, Jean (2006). The introduction of portfolios in Higher Education: a comparative study in the UK and the Netherlands. European Journal of Education, 41(3&4) pp. 491–508.

Gillen, Julia; Kleine Staarman, Judith; Littleton, Karen; Mercer, Neil and Twiner, Alison (2006). A “Learning Revolution”? Investigating Pedagogic Practices around Interactive Whiteboards in British Primary Classrooms. In: Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association conference, 2006, 7-11 Apr 2006, San Francisco, USA.

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Banyard, Philip; Underwood, Jean and Twiner, Alison (2006). Do enhanced communication technologies inhibit or facilitate self-regulated learning? European Journal of Education, 41(3 & 4) pp. 473–489.

Underwood, J.; Ault, A.; Dillon, G. and Farnsworth, B. (2005). A thematic analysis of children and young adults' perceptions of roadway risk. In: Underwood, Geoffrey ed. Traffic and Transport Psychology. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 37–48.

Twining, P.; Underwood, J.; Twiner, A.; Morris, D.; Ford, K.; Cook, D. and Broadie, R. (2005). eSIR: eStrategy Implementation Review. In: Becta D&R Researcher Consultation Day, 8 Nov 2005, Warwick, UK.