Voices, Identities, Negotiations, and Conflicts: Writing Academic English Across Cultures (Studies in Writing) - Hardcover

9780857247193: Voices, Identities, Negotiations, and Conflicts: Writing Academic English Across Cultures (Studies in Writing)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857247190 ISBN 13: 9780857247193

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2011

This volume aims to provide insights into the process of knowledge construction in EFL/ESL writing - from classrooms to research sites, from the dilemmas and risks NNEST student writers experience in the pursuit of true agency to the confusions and conflicts academics experience in their own writing practices. Knowledge construction as discussed in this volume is discussed from individualist, collectivist, cross-cultural, methodological, pedagogical, educational, sociocultural and political perspectives. The volume features a diverse array of methodologies and perspectives to sift, problematise, interrogate and challenge current practice and prevailing writing and publishing subcultures; and most importantly, it does so by presenting to readers that writing for publications should genuinely be for knowledge development and should not be restricted to only the considered 'knower of the game'. In this spirit, this volume wishes to break new ground and open up fresh avenues for exploration, reflection, knowledge construction, and evolving voices.

Contents
Problematising and Enriching Writing Academic English: An Introduction, Phan Le Ha and Bradley Baurain
1. Crafting New Possibilities for Self: Ethics of Teaching Creative Writing in EFL, Rosemary Viete, Monash University, Australia
2. The Writing and Culture Nexus: Writers Comparisons of Vietnamese and English Academic Writing, Phan Le Ha, Monash University, Australia
3. Chinese Postgraduate Students Learning to Write in English: Towards an Understanding of L2 Academic Writing, Meihui Wang, Monash University, Australia
4. Turning the Spotlight to International Students Internal Negotiations: Critical Thinking in Academic Writing, Ly Tran, RMIT University, Australia
5. Staff Perceptions about the Role of Writing in Developing Critical Thinking in Business Students, Duong Bich Hang, Foreign Trade University, Vietnam
6. I pain, I gain : Self-assessment in a Chinese University Academic Writing Course, Paul McPherron, Southern Illinois University, USA
7. Cross-cultural Moral Explorations in Plagiarism, Bradley Baurain, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
8. Beyond the Accusation of Plagiarism, Qing Gu and A. Jane Brooks, University of Nottingham, UK
9. Plagiarism, Intertextuality, and the Politics of Knowledge, Identity and Textual Ownership in Undergraduate ESL/EFL Students Academic Writing, Celia Thompson, University of Melbourne, Australia
10. Developed World Influences on ESL/EFL Writing Situations: Differentiating Realities from Fantasies, Jayakaran Mukundan, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
11. Walking the Tightrope: An Inquiry into English for Academic Purposes, Matthew Piscioneri, Monash University, Australia
Afterword - Crossing Cultures in an Unequal Global Order: Voicing and Agency in Academic Writing in English, T. Ruanni F. Tupas, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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