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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arend, Moeain,; Cadman, Kate,; Canagarajah, Suresh,; Chihota, Clement Mapfumo,; Cooper, Brenda,; Cooper, Linda,; Deyi, Somikazi,; Hunma, Aditi,; Lee, Ena,; Lillis, Theresa,; Paxton, Moragh,; Scott, Mary,; Sibomana, Emmanuel,; Thesen, Lucia,
• HerausgeberIn: Cooper, Linda,; Thesen, Lucia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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 w...

Table of 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