Knowledge-Making from a Postgraduate Writers' Circle : A Southern Reflectory /
Thesen, Lucia
Knowledge-Making from a Postgraduate Writers' Circle : A Southern Reflectory / Lucia Thesen. - 1 online resource (168 p.) - Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation ; 6 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Writers’ Circle as a Portal to Knowledge-Making -- Imagine a Group of Postgraduates -- Traces and Archives -- Exploring Interfaces: Surface Tension -- The Turbulent Archive(s) of Writing in the South -- Writing as Inquiry -- A Note to the Reader -- Ethics: An I is always a We, and a They -- The Circle as a Portal to Knowledge-Making: The Chapters -- Notes -- 1 A Threshold Space of Diff erence: Introducing the Thursday Circle -- Safe Space? -- Event -- Practices in the Writers’ Circle -- Hold on, This Doesn’t Sound Right … -- Outside/In: The Writers’ Circle in Context -- Changing Spaces -- Walking and Water Points -- Through and Between -- 2 The Yellow Folders Draw Me In: Looking for the Trace -- Drawing Closer -- Immersion -- Synchronicity and the Trace -- The 2016 Folder: A Collage -- Writing as a Mode of Inquiry -- 3 Surface Tension: Writing in the Shadow of the God View -- Two Stories from the Interface -- The Knowledge Supermarket -- Exploring Alternatives -- Peripheral Vision and Webbed Accounts -- Theory as a Verb -- Surface Tension -- 4 HA HA HA: Shaking the Tree of Language -- Staying with the Laughter -- Staying in Touch -- Concepts from the Thought Flow -- At the Water Point, Again -- Shaking the Tree -- 5 One Word at a Time: Finding Rhythm in Writing -- One Word at a Time -- Time Stories from the Circle -- Oscillating between the Clock and the Flow -- Between the Given and the New -- ‘Don’t leave yourself at the door!’ -- Exploring the Three Circles -- ‘Working against the stultifying eff ects of duration’ -- 6 Punctuating the Flow: Refl ections from Beyond the Circle -- Punctuation -- An Inquiry into the Mesh of Things -- ‘The research topic in PhD life’ -- Footing: Alignment to Ourselves and Others -- The Circle in the Flow -- 7 ‘I remember a few rogue popcorns’: Teaching for the Trace -- I remember … -- On Not Putting your Suitcase on the Ground -- Juvenile Delinquents -- Refusals -- The Unsettling Affect of I remember -- More Poetics than Didactics -- Conclusion: Knowledge- Making at the Water Point -- Writing as a Smudge -- Teaching Research Writing -- Researching the Circle -- A Glimpse of Inner Capacity -- Playing with Time -- Academic Literacies and Doctoral Writing as a Field of Inquiry -- The INK in ThINK -- Writing and Knowledge-Making -- References -- Index
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This book seeks to disrupt the narrative about the process of academic writing and the written products which are currently valued in the university. The author uses writing as both a subject and a method on enquiry in an ethnographic deep dive into her long-term engagement with a postgraduate writers' circle in an elite South African university.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781800419612
10.21832/9781800419612 doi
Academic writing--Study and teaching (Graduate)--South Africa
Academic writing--Study and teaching (Graduate)--South Africa.
Authorship--Collaboration
Authorship--Collaboration.
Education, Higher--South Africa
Education, Higher--South Africa.
Group work in education--South Africa
Group work in education--South Africa.
Learning and scholarship
Learning and scholarship.
Bilingualism & multilingualism.
Higher & further education, tertiary education.
Organization & management of education.
EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education.
808.020711
Knowledge-Making from a Postgraduate Writers' Circle : A Southern Reflectory / Lucia Thesen. - 1 online resource (168 p.) - Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation ; 6 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Writers’ Circle as a Portal to Knowledge-Making -- Imagine a Group of Postgraduates -- Traces and Archives -- Exploring Interfaces: Surface Tension -- The Turbulent Archive(s) of Writing in the South -- Writing as Inquiry -- A Note to the Reader -- Ethics: An I is always a We, and a They -- The Circle as a Portal to Knowledge-Making: The Chapters -- Notes -- 1 A Threshold Space of Diff erence: Introducing the Thursday Circle -- Safe Space? -- Event -- Practices in the Writers’ Circle -- Hold on, This Doesn’t Sound Right … -- Outside/In: The Writers’ Circle in Context -- Changing Spaces -- Walking and Water Points -- Through and Between -- 2 The Yellow Folders Draw Me In: Looking for the Trace -- Drawing Closer -- Immersion -- Synchronicity and the Trace -- The 2016 Folder: A Collage -- Writing as a Mode of Inquiry -- 3 Surface Tension: Writing in the Shadow of the God View -- Two Stories from the Interface -- The Knowledge Supermarket -- Exploring Alternatives -- Peripheral Vision and Webbed Accounts -- Theory as a Verb -- Surface Tension -- 4 HA HA HA: Shaking the Tree of Language -- Staying with the Laughter -- Staying in Touch -- Concepts from the Thought Flow -- At the Water Point, Again -- Shaking the Tree -- 5 One Word at a Time: Finding Rhythm in Writing -- One Word at a Time -- Time Stories from the Circle -- Oscillating between the Clock and the Flow -- Between the Given and the New -- ‘Don’t leave yourself at the door!’ -- Exploring the Three Circles -- ‘Working against the stultifying eff ects of duration’ -- 6 Punctuating the Flow: Refl ections from Beyond the Circle -- Punctuation -- An Inquiry into the Mesh of Things -- ‘The research topic in PhD life’ -- Footing: Alignment to Ourselves and Others -- The Circle in the Flow -- 7 ‘I remember a few rogue popcorns’: Teaching for the Trace -- I remember … -- On Not Putting your Suitcase on the Ground -- Juvenile Delinquents -- Refusals -- The Unsettling Affect of I remember -- More Poetics than Didactics -- Conclusion: Knowledge- Making at the Water Point -- Writing as a Smudge -- Teaching Research Writing -- Researching the Circle -- A Glimpse of Inner Capacity -- Playing with Time -- Academic Literacies and Doctoral Writing as a Field of Inquiry -- The INK in ThINK -- Writing and Knowledge-Making -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This book seeks to disrupt the narrative about the process of academic writing and the written products which are currently valued in the university. The author uses writing as both a subject and a method on enquiry in an ethnographic deep dive into her long-term engagement with a postgraduate writers' circle in an elite South African university.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781800419612
10.21832/9781800419612 doi
Academic writing--Study and teaching (Graduate)--South Africa
Academic writing--Study and teaching (Graduate)--South Africa.
Authorship--Collaboration
Authorship--Collaboration.
Education, Higher--South Africa
Education, Higher--South Africa.
Group work in education--South Africa
Group work in education--South Africa.
Learning and scholarship
Learning and scholarship.
Bilingualism & multilingualism.
Higher & further education, tertiary education.
Organization & management of education.
EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education.
808.020711