Writing Games: Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education

by Casanave; Christine Pearson

• ISBN13: 9780805835311
• ISBN10: 0805835318
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices interact with and contribute to their evolving identities as students and professionals in academic environments in higher education.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Paul Prior
Preface	xiii
Games and Fraes: When Writing is More Than Writing	1	(34)
A Word on Frames	1	(2)
Common Sense Beginnings	3	(10)
Framing in the Voices of Others	13	(16)
Assumptions: The End of the Beginning	29	(2)
Case Study Mehodology	31	(4)
The Beginnings of Change: Learning and Teaching Undergraduate Academic Literacy Games	35	(47)
Clueless	35	(2)
Published Studies	37	(16)
Case Study: Communities of Practice? Game Strategies in Two Teachers' EAP Classes in a Japanese University	53	(25)
Chaphter Reflections	78	(4)
Stepping into the Profession: Writing Games in Masters Programs	82	(52)
From Observer to Participant	82	(2)
Published Studies	84	(8)
Case Study: Five Masters Students Step Into the Second Language Education Profession	92	(36)
Chapter Reflections	128	(6)
Redfeining the Self: The Unsettling Doctoral Program Game	134	(44)
From Clarity to Confusion	134	(2)
Published Studies	136	(13)
Case Study: Virginina: Not Her Kind of Game	149	(27)
Chapter Reflections	176	(2)
Juggling and Balancing Games of Bilngual Faculty	178	(42)
Personal Reflections on Multilngualism	178	(3)
Published Studies	181	(10)
Case Study: The Juggling Games of Bilingual Faculity	191	(25)
Chapter Reflections	216	(4)
Bending the Rules	220	(36)
Conforming and Resisting	220	(5)
Published Studies	225	(8)
Case Study: Author-Editor Games in the Construction of Unconventional Textual Identities	233	(2)
The Authors	235	(3)
Issues	238	(16)
Chapter Reflections	254	(2)
The Paradoxical Effort After Coherench In Academic Writing Games	256	(24)
Games, Transitions, and Idenity Revisited	260	(5)
Effort After Choerence	265	(14)
The End and the Continuation	279	(1)
Appendices	280	(11)
References	291	(16)
Author Index	307	(6)
Subject Index	313