Ethnographic perspectives on academic writing / Brian Paltridge, Sue Starfield, and Christine M. Tardy.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Paltridge, Brian, author.
• Starfield, Sue, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Academic writing.
• Educational anthropology--Research.
• Educational anthropology.

Physical Description:

x, 205 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Ethnographic Perspectives on Academic Writing, This book argues that adopting ethnographically oriented perspectives on research into academic writing is a valuable means of deepening understanding of the social influences on language use and individuals' experiences in academic writing contexts, helping to gain insider views of writers' experiences, writing practices, and the contexts in which academic texts are produced and assessed. Paltridge, Starfield and Tardy examine a range of academic writing contexts including undergraduate writing, postgraduate writing, writing for publication, and the learning and teaching of academic writing, and draw together work in the areas of English for academic purposes, academic literacies, genre studies, and writing in the disciplines. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 What is ethnography? 5
• Origins of ethnography 5
• Classical ethnography and its variants 8
• The evolution of ethnography 9
• The impact of postmodernism and poststructuralism 10
• Critical ethnography 13
• Ethnography today 14
• Conclusion 15
• 2 Context and academic writing research 17
• Language and context 17
• Context and systemic functional linguistics 19
• Genre, context, and English for specific purposes 21
• Drawing together textual and contextual perspectives on academic writing 24
• The social and cultural context of academic genres 25
• Conclusion 27
• 3 Ethnographic perspectives on academic writing research 29
• Narrowing the gap between text and context 31
• Textography 43
• Autoethnography 45
• Conclusion 48
• 4 Ethnographic perspectives on undergraduate writing 51
• Ethnographic perspectives on writing in and across undergraduate spaces 53
• An ethnographic perspective on undergraduate research writing in environmental science 59
• Ethnographic perspectives on identity, sociopolitics, and power 65
• Ethnographic perspectives on inequities of access in a first-year sociology course 71
• Ethnographic perspectives on language policies and assessment 77
• Implications for teaching 82
• Conclusion 83
• 5 Ethnographic perspectives on postgraduate writing 85
• Research into postgraduate writing 85
• Research into thesis and dissertation writing 88
• Roles, responsibilities, and expectations in thesis and dissertation writing 91
• A textography of art and design exegeses 95
• A textography of doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts 98
• Implications for teaching 104
• Conclusion 106
• 6 Ethnographic perspectives on writing for publication 109
• The pressure to publish in English 112
• Writing in unequal contexts 115
• Brokering literacy 120
• Implications for teaching 130
• Conclusion 131
• 7 Ethnographic perspectives on learning and teaching academic writing 133
• Ethnographic perspectives on writing development over time 134
• Social alignments and identities in academic writing development 139
• Transitions and transfer of learning 143
• Writing instruction and transfer of learning 148
• Ethnographic approaches in the writing classroom 155
• Conclusion 164
• 8 Conclusions 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-196) and index.

ISBN:

• 0194423875
• 9780194423878

OCLC:

920848845