| Description |
xx, 316 pages 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Paul Prior -- 1. Games and Frames: When Writing is More than Writing -- 2. The Beginnings of Change: Learning and Teaching Undergraduate Academic Literacy Games -- 3. Stepping into the Profession: Writing Games in Masters Programs -- 4. Redefining the Self: The Unsettling Doctoral Program Game -- 5. Juggling and Balancing Games of Bilingual Faculty -- 6. Bending the Rules -- 7. The Paradoxical Effort after Coherence in Academic Writing Games |
| Summary |
"This book explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices interact with and contribute to their evolving identities as students and professionals in academic environments in higher education." "Focusing on people rather than experiments, numbers, and abstractions, this interdisciplinary work draws on concepts and methods from narrative inquiry, qualitative anthropology and sociology, and case studies of academic literacy in the field of composition and rhetoric. The style of the book is accessible and reader friendly, eschewing highly technical insider language without dismissing complex issues. It has a multicultural focus in the sense that the people portrayed are from a number of different cultures within and outside North America. It is also a multivocal work. The author positions herself as both an insider and outsider and takes on the different voices of each: other voices that appear are those of her case study participants, published authors and their case study participants. It is the author's hope that readers will find multiple ways to connect their own experiences with those of the writers the book portrays."--BOOK JACKET.0 |
| Analysis |
Literacy; Writing skills |
| Notes |
Transferred to digital printing 2009 --T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-306) and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Foreign speakers -- Case studies.
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Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Second language acquisition -- Case studies.
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Multicultural education -- Case studies.
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Educational games -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Case studies.
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| LC no. |
2001055592 |
| ISBN |
080583530X acid-free paper |
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0805835318 paperback acid-free paper |
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