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Risk in Academic Writing : Postgraduate Students, their Teachers and the Making of Knowledge / ed. by Lucia Thesen, Linda Cooper.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Perspectives on Language and EducationPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781783091058
  • 9781783091065
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.02 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1408 .R5674 2014
  • PE1408 .R5674 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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 writing, and one that can be used to challenge the silences and erasures inherent in academic tradition and convention. Widening participation and the internationalisation of higher education make questions of language, register, agency and identity in postgraduate writing all the more pressing, and this book offers a powerful argument against the further reinforcement of a ‘northern’ Anglophone understanding of knowledge and its production and dissemination. This volume will provide food-for-thought for postgraduate students and their supervisors everywhere.
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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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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 writing, and one that can be used to challenge the silences and erasures inherent in academic tradition and convention. Widening participation and the internationalisation of higher education make questions of language, register, agency and identity in postgraduate writing all the more pressing, and this book offers a powerful argument against the further reinforcement of a ‘northern’ Anglophone understanding of knowledge and its production and dissemination. This volume will provide food-for-thought for postgraduate students and their supervisors everywhere.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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