Writing in knowledge societies / edited by Doreen Starke-Meyerring [and four others] ; designers, Mike Palmquist and Adam Mackie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Starke-Meyerring, Doreen, 1966- editor.

Palmquist, Mike, book designer.

Mackie, Adam, book designer.

Series:

Perspectives on writing.

Perspectives on Writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--History.

Authorship.

Academic writing.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado ; Anderson, South Carolina : The WAC Clearinghouse : Parlor Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The editors of Writing in Knowledge Societies provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education. Writing in Knowledge Societies helps us conceptualize the ways in which rhetoric and writing work to organize, (re-)produce, undermine, dominate, marginalize, or contest knowledge-making practices in diverse settings, showing the many ways in which rhetoric and writing operate in knowledge-intensive organizations and societies.

Contents:

Front Cover ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Acknowledgment; Contents ; Writing in Knowledge Societies; 1 The Roles of Writing In Knowledge Societies: Questions, Exigencies, and Implications for the Study and Teaching of Writing; Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Anthony Paré; Conceptual, Methodological, and Historical Perspectives on Studying Writing as an Epistemic Practice; 2 Investigating Texts in their Social Contexts: The Promise and Peril of Rhetorical Genre Studies; Catherine F. Schryer

3 'Curious Gentlemen': The Hudson's Bay Company and the Royal Society, Business and Science in the Eighteenth CenturyJanet Giltrow; 4 Electons Are Cheap; Society Is Dear; Charles Bazerman; Writing as Knowledge Work in Public and Professional Settings; 5 Risk Knowledge and Risk Communication: The Rhetorical Challenge of Public Dialogue; Philippa Spoel and Chantal Barriault; 6 The Evolution of an Environmentalist Group Toward Public Participation: Civic Knowledge Construction and Transgressive Identities; Diana Wegner

7 Making Legal Knowledge in Global Digital Environments: The Judicial Opinion as RemixMartine Courant Rife; 8 Understanding and Supporting Knowledge Work in Schools, Workplaces, and Public Life; William Hart-Davidson and Jeffrey T. Grabill; The Role of Writing in the Production of Knowledge in Research Environments; 9 Rhetoric, Knowledge, and "The Brute Facts of Nature" in Science Research; Heather Graves; 10 Disciplines and Discourses: Social Interactions in the Construction of Knowledge; Ken Hyland

11 Knowledge and Identity Work in the Supervision of Doctoral Student Writing: Shaping Rhetorical SubjectsAnthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, and Lynn McAlpine; 12 Writing into the Knowledge Society: A Case Study of Vulnerability in Inkshedding; Miriam Horne; The Teaching of Writing as an Epistemic Practice in Higher Education; 13 Writing and Knowledge Making: Insights from an Historical Perspective; Paul M. Rogers and Olivia Walling; 14 Reinventing WAC (again): The First-Year Seminar and Academic Literacy 1; Doug Brent

15 A Code of Ethics as a Collaborative Learning Tool: Comparing a Face-To-Face Engineering Team and Multidisciplinary Online TeamsAnne Parker and Amanda Goldrick-Jones; 16 "An Engrained Part of My Career": The Formation of a Knowledge Worker in the Dual Space of Engineering Knowledge and Rhetorical Process; Natasha Artemeva; 17 International Students and Identity: Resisting Dominant Ways of Writing and Knowing in Academe; Heekyeong Lee and Mary H. Maguire; Articulating and Implementing Rhetoric and Writing as a Knowledge-Making Practice in Higher Education

18 Representing Writing: A Rhetoric for Change

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781602352711

1602352712

9781602352704

1602352704