Risk in Academic Writing - Postgraduate Students, their Teachers and the Making of Knowledge

This book brings together a variety of voices - including students and teachers, journal editors and authors - to interrogate the notion of risk in academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a productive force, and one that can be used to challenge the silences and erasures inherent in academic tradition and convention.

About the author

Lucia Thesen is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research focuses on postgraduate writing pedagogies and alternative forms and functions of academic literacy practices.
Linda Cooper is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research focuses on worker education, the recognition of prior learning and the theorization of different forms of knowledge.

Summary

This book brings together a variety of voices - including students and teachers, journal editors and authors - to interrogate the notion of risk in academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a productive force, and one that can be used to challenge the silences and erasures inherent in academic tradition and convention.

Product details

• Authors: Lucia Thesen
• Assisted by: Linda Cooper (Editor), Lucia Thesen (Editor)
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2013
• EAN: 9781783091058
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-105-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 217 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 486 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a; New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics