Voices, identities, negotiations, and conflicts : writing academic English across cultures / edited by Phan Le Ha, Bradley Baurain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phan, Le Ha, 1976-

Contributor:

Baurain, Bradley.

Series:

Studies in Writing 22.

Studies in writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric.

Academic writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Emerald Group Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume aims to provide insights into the process of knowledge construction in EFL/ESL writing - from classrooms to research sites, from the dilemmas and risks NNEST student writers experience in the pursuit of true agency to the confusions and conflicts academics experience in their own writing practices. Knowledge construction as discussed in this volume is discussed from individualist, collectivist, cross-cultural, methodological, pedagogical, educational, sociocultural and political perspectives. The volume features a diverse array of methodologies and perspectives to sift, problematise, interrogate and challenge current practice and prevailing writing and publishing subcultures. In this spirit, this volume wishes to break new ground and open up fresh avenues for exploration, reflection, knowledge construction, and evolving voices.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Phan Le Ha and Bradley Baurain

Chapter 1: Crafting New Possibilities for Self: The Ethics of Teaching Creative Writing in EFL / Rosemary Viete

Chapter 2: The Writing and Culture Nexus: Writers’ Comparisons of Vietnamese and English Academic Writing / Phan Le Ha

Chapter 3: Chinese Postgraduate Students Learning to Write in English: Toward an Understanding of L2 Academic Writing / Meihui Wang

Chapter 4: Turning the Spotlight to International Students’ Internal Negotiations: Critical Thinking in Academic Writing / Ly Thi Tran

Chapter 5: Staff Perceptions about the Role of Writing in Developing Critical Thinking in Business Students / Duong Bich Hang

Chapter 6: \'I Pain, I Gain\': Self-Assessment in a Chinese University Academic Writing Course / Paul McPherron

Chapter 7: Cross-Cultural Moral Explorations in Plagiarism / Bradley Baurain

Chapter 8: Beyond the Accusation of Plagiarism / Qing Gu and A. Jane Brooks

Chapter 9: Plagiarism, Intertextuality and the Politics of Knowledge, Identity and Textual Ownership in Undergraduate ESL/EFL Students’ Academic Writing / Celia Thompson

Chapter 10: Developed World Influences on ESL/EFL Writing Situations: Differentiating Realities from Fantasies / Jayakaran Mukundan

Chapter 11: Walking the Tightrope: An Inquiry into English for Academic Purposes / Matthew Piscioneri

Afterword Crossing Cultures in an Unequal Global Order: Voicing and Agency in Academic Writing in English / T. Ruanni F. Tupas

List of Volumes / Phan Le Ha and Bradley Baurain.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613016409

9781283016407

1283016400

9780857247209

0857247204

OCLC:

710992660

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9780857247209 DOI