Worlds Apart - Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts (Paperback)

"Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts" offers a unique examination of writing as it is applied and used in academic and workplace settings. Based on a 7-year multi-site comparative study of writing in different university courses and matched workplaces, this volume presents new perspectives on how writing functions within the activities of various disciplines: law and public administration courses and government institutions; management courses and financial institutions; social-work courses and social-work agencies; and architecture courses and architecture practice. Using detailed ethnography, the authors make comparisons between the two types of settings through an understanding of how writing is operative within the particularities of these settings.
Although the research was initially established to further understanding of the relationships between writing in academic and workplace settings, it has evolved to examining writing as it is embedded in both types of settings--where social relationships, available tools, and historical, cultural, temporal, and physical location are all implicated in complex ways in the decisions people make as writers. Readers of this volume will discover that the uniqueness of each setting makes salient different aspects of writers and writing, resulting in complex, and potentially unsettling implications for writing theory and the teaching of writing.

General

Imprint:	Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
Release date:	April 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Patrick Dias • Aviva Freedman • Peter Medway • Anthony Par
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	266
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-2148-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business communication & presentation > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Office & workplace > Secretarial & office skills > General
LSN:	0-8058-2148-1
Barcode:	9780805821482

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