Writing in the university: education, knowledge and reputation
Abstract
This paper challenges the widespread view that writing is somehow peripheral to the more serious aspects of university life – doing research and teaching students. It argues that universities are about writing and that specialist forms of academic literacy are at the heart of everything we do: central to constructing knowledge, educating students and negotiating a professional academic career. Seeing literacy as embedded in the beliefs and...
Paper Details
Title
Writing in the university: education, knowledge and reputation
Published Date
Mar 2, 2011
Journal
Volume
46
Issue
1
Pages
53 - 70
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