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Women Writing the Academy [electronic resource] : Audience, Authority, and Transformation / Gesa E. Kirsch ; with a foreword by John Trimbur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirsch, Gesa.
- Series:
- Studies in writing & rhetoric.
- Studies in writing & rhetoric
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women scholars--United States.
- Women scholars.
- Report writing--Sex differences.
- Report writing.
- Authors and readers--United States.
- Authors and readers.
- Women--United States--Intellectual life.
- Women.
- Women--Education (Higher)--United States.
- Academic writing--Sex differences.
- Academic writing.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1993]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women Writing the Academy is based on an extensive interview study by Gesa E. Kirsch that investigates how women in different academic disciplines perceive and describe their experiences as writers in the university. Kirsch's study focuses on the writing strategies of successful women writers, their ways of establishing authority, and the kinds of audiences they address in different disciplinary settings. Based on multiple interviews with thirty-five women from five different disciplines (anthropology, education, history, nursing, and psychology) and four academic ranks (seniors, graduate st
- Contents:
- Cover; Studies in Writing & Rhetoric; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Joining the Academy: Women's Roles, Writing, and Authority; Portrait of a Writer: Professor Ashley ""Walking between raindrops . . .""; 2. The Study: Design, Method, and Assumptions; Portrait of a Writer: Ms. Dannon ""My life is in incomplete sentences. I don't have time for complete sentences.""; 3. Working against Tradition: Establishing Authority in Writing; Portrait of a Writer: Professor Caraway ""I need to be more overt about my values.""
- 4. Expanding Communities: Writing for Academic and Nonacademic Audiences; Portrait of a Writer: Ms. King ""I try not to use too many words, try not to jumble fifty-cent words.""; 5. Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Transforming Academic Writing and Research; Portrait of a Writer: Professor Valentine ""I see myself as a cultivator of human relationships.""; 6. Future Visions for Research and Teaching; Appendix; Works Cited and Consulted; Author Biography; Back Cover
- Notes:
- "Published for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, a conference of the National Council of Teachers of English."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-151).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-9084-1
- OCLC:
- 622135133
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