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Writing in the academy: Reputation, education and knowledge (Inaugural Professorial Lecture) - Softcover
Ken Hyland explores the importance of writing in higher education to both academics and students by focusing on the ways it contributes to knowledge, education and the professional careers of academics themselves. He presents aspects of his research to argue that writing is at the heart of academic practice and that we need to understand literacy as a situated activity and not as simply textual and psychological. Seeing writing as embedded in the epistemologies of individual disciplines helps students to conceptualise their subjects and academics to engage their peers and to argue their claims persuasively. Ultimately, and in an important sense, we are what we write, and we need to understand the distinctive ways our disciplines have of identifying issues, asking questions, addressing a literature, criticising colleagues and presenting arguments.
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Hyland's spotlighting of the differences between academic and everyday writing and of the disciplinary differences in academic writing provide invaluable information to those concerned with improving students' writing and, indeed, their own writing --Barbara Townsend, Professor & Director, Center for Community College Research, University of Missouri-Columbia
About the Author:
At the time of publication, Ken Hyland was Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
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- PublisherInstitute of Education
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0854737715
- ISBN 13 9780854737710
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages24
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