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Writing and thinking in contemporary academia : the poetics of clarity / Martin Grünfeld.

Van Pelt Library LB2369 .G78 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Grünfeld, Martin, author.
Series:
Public intellectuals and the sociology of knowledge
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Academic writing.
Communication in education.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
Physical Description:
x, 157 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Contents:
The poetics of clarity in contemporary academic writing
The idealised plane of poetics : core concepts and ideals
The formation of sentences
Researchers-in-the-texts
Textual structures of research articles
Reflections on the consequences for thinking
The unstable distinction between form and content
Phrase regimes, genres, and the expulsion of metaphors
Authorial effacement and the suppression of contexts, biases, interests
Textual structures as templates for thinking
Thinking the limits and the limits for thinking: the inherent positivist bias
Clarity a potential acceleration of thinking?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Grünfeld, Martin, author. Writing and thinking in contemporary academia.
ISBN:
9781138312135
1138312134
OCLC:
1086552764

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