What Makes Writing Academic
"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 af...
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Place / Publishing House: | London [England] : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2022. London [England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Language: | English |
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Molinari, Julia, author. What Makes Writing Academic First edition. London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022 1 electronic resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier English CC BY-NC-ND Includes bibliographical references and index. Foreword / Chrissie Boughey (Rhodes University, South Africa) -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Letter to My Reader -- 1. Troubling Academic Writing: Problems and Implications for Higher Education -- 2. How Did We Get Here?: A Selected History -- 3. What Makes Writing Academic: Learning from Writings 'in the Wild' -- 4. Critical Realism: Re-claiming Theory for Practice -- 5. Foundations for a Future Pedagogy Signing Off -- Afterword / Suresh Canagarajah (Pennsylvania State University, USA) -- References -- Index. "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 affordances perceived by writers. By re-imagining how, which and whose knowledge emerges, conceptual spaces are created whereby writing practices can be pluralised and democratised. Academic communication hinges on being able to write in certain forms but not others, which risks excluding knowledge that may lend itself to alternative forms of representation, such as dialogues, chronicles, manifestos, blogs, poems and comics. Moreover, because academic ability tends to be misleadingly conflated with writing ability, limiting how the academy writes to a relatively narrow set of forms (such as the traditional essay or thesis) may be preventing a range of abilities from emerging. Standardised forms require abstracts, introductions, main bodies and conclusions that are also predominantly monolingual and monomodal: this can narrow, distort, constrain or flatten epistemic representation, leading to a range of epistemic losses (as well as gains). Based on examples from a range of academic writers, including students, and drawing on the history of academia, philosophy, socio-semiotic research, integrational and sociolinguistics as well as studies in multimodal and visual thinking, the book proposes that academic writings be re-imagined as multimodal artefacts that allow a wider range of epistemic affordances to emerge."-- Provided by publisher. Academic writing. Discourse analysis. Authorship. 1-350-24396-5 1-350-24392-2 |
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Foreword / Chrissie Boughey (Rhodes University, South Africa) -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Letter to My Reader -- 1. Troubling Academic Writing: Problems and Implications for Higher Education -- 2. How Did We Get Here?: A Selected History -- 3. What Makes Writing Academic: Learning from Writings 'in the Wild' -- 4. Critical Realism: Re-claiming Theory for Practice -- 5. Foundations for a Future Pedagogy Signing Off -- Afterword / Suresh Canagarajah (Pennsylvania State University, USA) -- References -- Index. |
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