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Author Geisler, Cheryl.

Title Academic literacy and the nature of expertise : reading, writing, and knowing in academic philosophy / Cheryl Geisler
Published Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, [1994]
©1994

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 MELB  808.042 G3135/A  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Literacy Among Experts in the Academy: The Academic Professions -- 2. Literacy Among Novices in the Academy: Students in School -- 3. Expertise as Cognitive Abstraction -- 4. Expertise as Professionalized Knowledge -- 5. Literacy and the Nature of Expertise -- 6. Observing Writers with Protocol Data -- 7. Modeling Writing as Activity -- 8. Design and Analytic Framework for These Studies -- 9. The Genre of the Philosophic Essay: Transforming Readers' Experience -- 10. Composing the Philosophic Essay: Transforming Everyday Conversation -- 11. Representing Philosophical Ethics: Transforming Everyday Narrative -- 12. At the Boundaries of Expertise: Transforming Apprenticeship in an Instructional Situation -- 13. Reflecting on Academic Literacy -- 14. Reforming Academic Literacy -- Appendix A. Chronological Bibliography of the Cognitive Process Tradition -- Appendix B. Directions for "Thinking-Aloud" Protocols -- Appendix C. Interview Guide for Experts and Novices
Appendix D. Interview Guide for the Teacher -- Appendix E. Interview Guide for the Students -- Appendix F. The Career of William James -- Appendix G. Participants' Final Texts -- Appendix H. Rules for the Analysis of Text Structure -- Appendix I. Chronological Listing of Participants' Narratives -- Appendix J. Rules for Aggregating Conversational Interchanges -- Appendix K. Coding the World of Discourse -- Appendix L. Week-by-Week Analysis of the Class
Analysis Rhetoric
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-342) and indexes
Notes Also available in print edition
Subject Academic writing -- Philosophy.
Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Research.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Learning and scholarship -- Authorship -- Philosophy.
Reading -- Philosophy.
LC no. 93042080
ISBN 0805810676 (acid-free paper)
0805810684 (paperback: acid-free paper)
OTHER TI Taylor & Francis EBS Perpetual 2017