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dc.contributor.authorMolinari, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-18T05:33:15Z
dc.date.available2022-03-18T05:33:15Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.isbn9781350243927
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53454
dc.description.abstractThis book argues that what makes writing academic emerges from socio-academic and historical practices rather than conventionalised stylistic, linguistic or syntactic forms. Using a critical realist lens, it re-imagines academic writings as 21st century open systems that change according to affordances perceived by writers. In so doing, the book offers opportunities for re-imagining how, which and whose knowledge emerges. Academic communication hinges on being able to write in certain forms but not others, which risks excluding knowledge that may lend itself to alternative forms of representation, including dialogues, chronicles, manifestos, blogs and comics. Moreover, because academic ability tends to be misleadingly conflated with writing ability, limiting how the academy writes to a relatively narrow set of forms (such as the essay or thesis), may be preventing a range of abilities from emerging. Standardised forms require abstracts, introductions, main bodies, and conclusions and are also predominantly monolingual and monomodal; this can narrow, distort or flatten epistemic representation and can lead to a range of epistemic losses and gains. Drawing on the history of academia, socio-semiotic research, integrational linguistics, and studies in multimodal and visual thinking, and presenting examples from a range of academic writers including students, the book proposes that academic writings be re-imagined as multimodal artefacts that harness a wider range of epistemic affordances.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.otherLanguage Arts & Disciplines
dc.subject.otherLinguistics
dc.titleWhat Makes Writing Academic
dc.title.alternativeRethinking Theory for Practice
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781350243958
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oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781350243934
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
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oapen.identifier.isbn9781350243934
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