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Title Worlds apart : acting and writing in academic and workplace contexts / Patrick Dias ... [and others]
Published United States : LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES (NJ), 1999

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 W'PONDS  808.066 D5416/W  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Rhetoric, knowledge, and society
Rhetoric, knowledge, and society.
Contents I. Introduction. 1. Introduction: Researching Writing at School and at Work. 2. Situating Writing -- II. University Writing. 3. The Social Motive of University Writing. 4. Complications and Tensions. 5. Writing and the Formation of the Architect -- III. Workplace Writing. 6. The Complexity of Social Motive in Workplace Writing. 7. Distributed Cognition at Work. 8. From Words to Bricks: Writing in an Architectural Practice -- IV. Transitions. 9. Students and Workers Learning. 10. Virtual Realities: Transitions From University to Workplace Writing. 11. Contexts for Writing: University and Work Compared
Analysis English for academic purposes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-245) and indexes
Subject Academic writing -- Study and teaching.
Business writing -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Technical writing -- Study and teaching.
Author Dias, Patrick.
LC no. 98049931
ISBN 0805821473 (cloth : alk. paper)
0805821481 (paperback: alk. paper)