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Knowledge-Making from a Postgraduate Writers' Circle : A Southern Reflectory / Lucia Thesen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation ; 6Publisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800419612
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.020711 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.

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.

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