Students writing in the university cultural and epistemological issues

Jones, Carys. (Added Author). Turner, Joan, 1951- (Added Author). Street, Brian V. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 1556193866 (US : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781556193866 (US : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027218013 (Eur. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9789027218018 (Eur. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1556193866 (US : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027218013 (Eur. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027294828 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789027294821 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 231 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1999.

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Section A. Interacting with the Institution -- Foregrounding background in academic learning / Monika Hermerschmidt -- What do students really say in their essays? Towards a descriptive framework for analysing student writing / Fiona English -- The student from overseas and teh British university : Finding a way to succeed / Carys Jones -- On not distrubing " our group peace" : The plight of the visiting researcher / Graham Low and Latilla Woodburn -- Writing assignments on a PGCE (Secondary) course : Two case studies / Brenda Gay, Carys Jones and Jane Jones -- Academic literacies and learning in higher education : Constructing knowledge through texts and experience / Mary R. Lea -- -- Section B. Mystery and Transparency in Academic Literacies -- -- Whose "common sense"? Essayist literacy and the institutional practice of mystery / Theresa Lillis -- Academic literacy and the discourse of transparency / Joan Turner -- Inventing academic literacy : An American perspective / Catherine Davidson and Alice Tomic -- Agency and subjectivity in student writing / Mary Scott -- Academic literacies / Brian V. Street.
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