Risk in academic writing : postgraduate students, their teachers and the making of knowledge /: postgraduate students, their teachers and the making of knowledge. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lucia Thesen and Linda Cooper.
• Other Names: Thesen, Lucia editor of compilation.; Cooper, Linda 1953- editor of compilation.
• Contents: Risk as productive : working with dilemmas in the writing of research / Lucia Thesen -- "Does my experience count?" : the role of experiential knowledge in the research writing of postgraduate adult learners / Linda Cooper -- A lovely imposition : the complexity of writing a thesis in isiXhosa / Somikazi Deyi -- Negotiating alternative discourses in academic writing and publishing : risks with hybridity / Suresh Canagarajah and Ena Lee -- Academic writing and research at an Afropolitan university : an international student perspective / Aditi Hunma and Emmanuel Sibomana -- Rehearsing the "postgraduate condition" in writers' circles / Clement Mapfumo Chihota and Lucia Thesen -- Genre : a pigeonhole or a pigeon? Case studies of the dilemmas posed by the writing of academic research proposals / Moragh Paxton -- Of house and home : reflections on knowing and writing for a "southern" postgraduate pedagogy / Kate Cadman -- "Error" or ghost text? Reading, ethnopoetics, and knowledge making / Mary Scott -- "It was hardly about writing" : translations of experience on entering postgraduate studies / Moeain Arend -- Resonances, resistances and relations : reflecting on the politics of risk in academic knowledge-making / Theresa Lillis -- Both dead and alive : Schrödinger's Cat in the contact zone / Brenda Cooper.
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 808.02; EDUCATION / Higher; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy; EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General; EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Literacy; Teaching skills & techniques; Academic writing; English language -- Rhetoric; Risk-taking (Psychology)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783091072
• Related ISBNs: 178309107X
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