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Writing games : multicultural case studies of academic literacy practices in higher education / Christine Pearson Casanave.

Author/creator Casanave, Christine Pearson, 1944-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoMahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Descriptionxx, 316 p. 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. GAMES AND FRAMES: WHEN WRITING IS MORE THAN 1 -- WRITING -- A Word on Frames 1 -- Common Sense Beginnings 3 -- Framing in the Voices of Others 13 -- Assumptions: The End of the Beginning 29 -- Case Study Methodology 31 -- 2. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHANGE: LEARNING AND TEACHING 35 -- UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC LITERACY GAMES -- Clueless 35 -- Published Studies 37 -- Case Study: Communities of Practice? Game Strategies -- in Two Teachers' EAP Classes in a Japanese University 53 -- Chapter Reflections 78 -- 3. STEPPING INTO THE PROFESSION: WRITING GAMES 8 2 -- IN MASTERS PROGRAMS -- From Observer to Participant 82 -- Published Studies 84 -- Case Study: Five Masters Students Step Into the Second -- Language Education Profession 92 -- Chapter Reflections 128 -- 4. REDEFINING THE SELF: THE UNSETTLING DOCTORAL 13 4 -- PROGRAM GAME -- From Clarity to Confusion 134 -- Published Studies 136 -- Case Study: Virginia: Not Her Kind of Game 149 -- Chapter Reflections 176 -- 5. JUGGLING AND BALANCING GAMES OF BILINGUAL FACULTY 17 8 -- Personal Reflections on Multilingualism 178 -- Published Studies 181 -- Case Study: The Juggling Games of Bilingual Faculty 191 -- Chapter Reflections 216 -- 6. BENDING THE RULES 220 -- Conforming and Resisting 220 -- Published Studies 225 -- Case Study: Author-Editor Games in the Construction -- of Unconventional Textual Identities 233 -- The Authors 235 -- Issues 238 -- Chapter Reflections 254 -- 7. THE PARADOXICAL EFFORT AFTER COHERENCE IN 256 -- ACADEMIC WRIING GAMES -- Games, Transitions, and Identity Revisited 260 -- Effort After Coherence 265 -- The End and the Continuation 279.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-306) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2001055592
ISBN080583530X (acid-free paper)
ISBN0805835318 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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