Engaged writers and dynamic disciplines : research on the academic writing life / Christopher Thaiss, Terry Myers Zawacki.

Author/creator Thaiss, Christopher, 1948-
Other author Zawacki, Terry Myers.
Format Book
Publication InfoPortsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook, ©2006.
Descriptionx, 186 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
English language--Rhetoric. --Study and teaching.
Interdisciplinary approach in education.
Academic writing--Study and teaching.
Scholarly publishing.
Academic writing.

Contents Chapter One: What's Academic? What's Alternative? -- What is Academic Writing? What Are Its Standards? -- What Constitutes an Alternative to Academic Writing? -- Disciplines, Genres, and Research on Alternative Discourses and the Academy -- Our Methods and Materials -- Chapter Two: Faculty Speak about Their Writing, Disciplines, and Alternatives -- Disciplinary Standards vs. Academic Standards -- The Analytic Academy: Tension between Reason, Emotion, and the Body -- Allowed Alternatives -- Working Outside Disciplinary Boundaries -- Chapter Three: How Our Informants Teach Students to Write -- How to think like a scientist: Teaching the Tools of the Discipline -- Good writing is good writing: Perceiving the Universal in the Disciplinary -- Neither This nor That: Alternative Exigencies, Alternative Forms -- New Media, Hypermedia, Multimedia -- Faculty Expectations as Seen in Department Assessment Rubrics -- Conclusion: The Standards vs. the Alternative -- Chapter Four: Students Speak about Expectations, Confidence, and How They Learn -- Our Sources of Data -- Student Expectations for Writing in Their Disciplines -- Passion and the Discipline -- How Students Learn to Write in Their Disciplines -- How Our Students Perceptions Relate to the Taxonomy of Alternatives -- Chapter Five: Implications for Teaching and Program Building -- Conclusions -- The Discipline and the Passion -- Alternative Discourses -- Five Contexts for Writing Assignments -- Stages of Writing Development into a Discipline -- Tension between Individual Desire and Disciplinary Convention -- Practices for Teachers -- Practices for Faculty and Program Development -- Directions for Future Research -- Works Cited.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-179).
LCCN 2005030415
ISBN0867095563 (acid-free paper)
ISBN9780867095562 (acid-free paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PE1404 .T4717 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold