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A geopolitics of academic writing /

This work acts as a critique of current scholarly publishing practices, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized. It examines three broad conventions governing academic writing: textual concerns, social customs, and publishing practices.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Canagarajah, A. Suresh
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2002]
Colección:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contextualizing academic writing
  • Communities of knowledge construction
  • Conventions in knowledge construction
  • Textual conventions in conflict
  • Publishing requirements and material constraints
  • Literacy practices and academic culture
  • Poverty and power in knowledge production
  • Reform, resistance, reconstruction.