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Title Why writing matters : issues of access and identity in writing research and pedagogy / edited by Awena Carter, Theresa Lillis, Sue Parkin.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 254 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in written language and literacy, 0929-7324 ; v. 12
Studies in written language and literacy ; v. 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Why Writing Matters; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface. Roz Ivanic's writing and identity; Introduction; List of Contributors to this volume; Acknowledgements; List of figures; Part I. Creativity and identity; Reflection 1. Writing a narrative of multiple voices; 1. Writers and meaning making in the context of online learning; 2. Ivanic and the concept of "wrighting"; Reflection 2. Identity without identification; 3. Authoring research, plagiarising the self?; 4. Creativity in academic writing Escaping from the Straitjacket of genre?
Summary This book brings together the work of scholars from around the world - UK, Pakistan, US, South Africa, Hungary, Korea, Mexico - to illustrate and celebrate the many ways in which Roz Ivanic has advanced the academic study of writing. Focusing on writing in different formal contexts of education, from primary through to further and higher education in a range of national contexts, the twenty one original contributions in the book critically engage with theoretical and empirical issues raised in Ivanic's influential body of work. In their exploration of writers' struggles with the demands of dom.
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Subject English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Research.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Research.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Ivanič, Roz.
Carter, Awena.
Lillis, Theresa M., 1956-
Parkin, Sue, 1946-
Other Form: Print version: Why writing matters. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009 9789027218070 9027218072 (DLC) 2008051608 (OCoLC)276822559
ISBN 9789027289735 (electronic book)
9027289735 (electronic book)
1282104276
9781282104273
9789027218070 (alkaline paper)
9027218072 (alkaline paper)