Risk in Academic Writing : Postgraduate Students, their Teachers and the Making of Knowledge /

This book brings together a variety of voices - students and teachers, journal editors and authors, writers from the global north and south - to interrogate the notion of risk as it applies to the production of academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a productive force in teaching, learning and w...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arend, Moeain (Contribuidor), Cadman, Kate (Contribuidor), Canagarajah, Suresh (Contribuidor), Chihota, Clement Mapfumo (Contribuidor), Cooper, Brenda (Contribuidor), Cooper, Linda (Contribuidor, Editor ), Deyi, Somikazi (Contribuidor), Hunma, Aditi (Contribuidor), Lee, Ena (Contribuidor), Lillis, Theresa (Contribuidor), Paxton, Moragh (Contribuidor), Scott, Mary (Contribuidor), Sibomana, Emmanuel (Contribuidor), Thesen, Lucia (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2013]
Colección:New Perspectives on Language and Education
Temas:
Academic writing.
English language > Rhetoric.
Risk-taking (Psychology)
Risk-taking (Psychology).
REFERENCE / Writing Skills.
epistemological access.
experiential knowledge.
graduate writing.
knowledge production.
meaning-making.
postgraduate literacies.
risk-taking in academic writing.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Contributors
  • Risk as Productive: Working with Dilemmas in the Writing of Research
  • Part 1: Deletion and Agency
  • 1. 'Does My Experience Count?' The Role of Experiential Knowledge in the Research Writing of Postgraduate Adult Learners
  • 2. A Lovely Imposition: The Complexity of Writing a Thesis in isiXhosa
  • Part 2: Strategies for Hybridity: Writing Together
  • 3. Negotiating Alternative Discourses in Academic Writing and Publishing: Risks with Hybridity
  • 4. Academic Writing and Research at an Afropolitan University: An International Student Perspective
  • Part 3: Pedagogies that Invite the Edge
  • 5. Rehearsing 'the Postgraduate Condition' in Writers' Circles
  • 6. Genre: A Pigeonhole or a Pigeon? Case Studies of the Dilemmas Posed by the Writing of Academic Research Proposals
  • 7. Of House and Home: Reflections on Knowing and Writing for a 'Southern' Postgraduate Pedagogy
  • Part 4: Reading the World in Students' Writing
  • 8. 'Error' or Ghost Text? Reading, Ethnopoetics and Knowledge Making
  • 9. 'It Was Hardly about Writing': Translations of Experience on Entering Postgraduate Studies
  • Part 5: Peripheral Vision: Reflections from North and South
  • 10. Resonances, Resistances and Relations: Reflecting on the Politics of Risk in Academic Knowledge Making
  • 11. Both Dead and Alive: Schrödinger's Cat in the Contact Zone
  • Index

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