Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity - Academic Writing and Professional Expertise

Grant seeking - the first step in knowledge production - has been an indispensable part of academic life, yet a challenging task for neophyte as well as veteran scholars. We are always curious about how grant winners compose their abstracts, cite previous work, present their proposed study, and negotiate with gate-keepers behind the scene. Building upon ethnographic data and a large corpus of authentic research grant proposals and grant reviews, this book intends to demystify the grant seeking activity. It is an invaluable resource for grant agencies, grant reviewers and grant writers, particularly novice grant writers and/or non-native English writers.
Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity is however more than a resource book. It is one of the few studies that draw upon two genre theories, encompass both quantitative and qualitative research approaches, and unite an exploration of macro-level recurrences in discursive activity and micro-level examinations of individual writers' agency, positioning, negotiation and identity construction. It enhances our understanding of the development of professional expertise in academia and thus will be of interest to researchers in the fields of academic writing, genre analysis and Language for Specific Purposes (LSP).

List of contents

Contents: Review of Research on Grant-Seeking Activity - Research Writing in terms of Genre and Person-in-the-World - Window Display: A Corpus-Based Study of Research Grant Proposal Abstracts - Voices and Positioning: Grant Writers' Referential Acts in the Literature Review - Averral and attribution: A Study of Niche Claims - Voices behind the Curtain: A Genre-Based Study of Grant Reviews - Pushing at the Gatekeeper's Fence: Case study of Two Scholars Seeking Grants in Hong Kong.

Product details

• Authors: Haiying Feng, Haying Feng
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9783034305464
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3430546-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 14 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 21): Linguistik ) / European University Studies (Series 21): Linguistics / Publications Universitaires Européenn; Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européenn; Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 21): Linguistik / Linguistics / Linguistique; Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 21): Linguistik / Linguistics / Linguistique; Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies/Publications Universitaires Européenne
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics