What Makes Writing Academic : : Rethinking Theory for Practice / / Julia Molinari.
This book argues that what makes writing academic emerges from socio-academic and historical practices rather than conventionalised stylistic, linguistic or syntactic forms. Using a critical realist lens, it re-imagines academic writings as 21st century open systems that change according to affordan...
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