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Worlds apart : acting and writing in academic and workplace contexts / Patrick Dias ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rhetoric, knowledge, and society.
- Rhetoric, knowledge, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- Academic writing--Study and teaching.
- Academic writing.
- Technical writing--Study and teaching.
- Technical writing.
- Business writing--Study and teaching.
- Business writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts offers a unique examination of writing as it is applied and used in academic and workplace settings. Based on a 7-year multi-site comparative study of writing in different university courses and matched workplaces, this volume presents new perspectives on how writing functions within the activities of various disciplines: law and public administration courses and government institutions; management courses and financial institutions; social-work courses and social-work agencies; and architecture courses and architecture
- Contents:
- BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; PREFACE; I INTRODUCTION; 1 INTRODUCTION: RESEARCHING WRITING AT SCHOOL AND AT WORK; 2 SITUATING WRITING; II UNIVERSITY WRITING; 3 THE SOCIAL MOTIVE OF UNIVERSITY WRITING; 4 COMPLICATIONS AND TENSIONS; 5 WRITING AND THE FORMATION OF THE ARCHITECT; III WORKPLACE WRITING; 6 THE COMPLEXITY OF SOCIAL MOTIVE IN WORKPLACE WRITING; 7 DISTRIBUTED COGNITION AT WORK; 8 FROM WORDS TO BRICKS: WRITING IN AN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE; IV TRANSITIONS; 9 STUDENTS AND WORKERS LEARNING
- 10 VIRTUAL REALITIES: TRANSITIONS FROM UNIVERSITY TO WORKPLACE WRITING11 CONTEXTS FOR WRITING: UNIVERSITY AND WORK COMPARED; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-245) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-4106-0233-8
- 1-282-32581-7
- 9786612325816
- 0-585-11485-4
- 9781410602336
- OCLC:
- 476233095
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