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