Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise : Reading, Writing, and Knowing in Academic Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780805810677 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 376 str.

Cheryl Geisler;Geisler

Opis

Integrating cognitive and sociological aspects of reading and writing this text covers: educational research on reading and writing; rhetorical research on writing in the discipline; cognitive research on expertise in ill-defined problems; and sociological and historical research on the profession.

Recenzje

"Geisler's review...is exemplary. It draws together work in such areas as the rhetoric of science, the nature of activity in the elementary school classroom, writing to learn, problem solving as a cognitive activity, and the history of the professions."
—Technical Communication Quarterly

"...offers a rich inquiry into the nature of expertise as a cultural phenomenon that should be of interest to teachers concerned with the historical organization of expertise in the academy and the ways in which this organization has provided for discontinuity between academic and indigenous literacy practices."
—College Composition & Communication

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Part I: Core Concepts. Literacy Among Experts in the Academy: The Academic Professions. Literacy Among Novices in the Academy: Students in School. Expertise as Cognitive Abstraction. Expertise as Professionalized Knowledge. Literacy and the Nature of Expertise. Part II: Studying Space and Time. Observing Writers with Protocol Data. Modeling Writing as Activity. Part III: Studies at a Single Site of Academic Literacy: Philosophical Ethics. Design and Analytic Framework for These Studies. The Genre of the Philosophic Essay: Transforming Readers' Experience. Composing the Philosophic Essay: Transforming Everyday Conversation. Representing Philosophical Ethics: Transforming Everyday Narrative. At the Boundaries of Expertise: Transforming Apprenticeship in an Instructional Situation. Part IV: Reflection and Reform. Reflecting on Academic Literacy. Reforming Academic Literacy. Appendices: Chronological Bibliography of the Cognitive Process Tradition. Directions for "Thinking-Aloud" Protocols. Interview Guide for Experts and Novices. Interview Guide for the Teacher. Interview Guide for the Students. The Career of William James. Participants' Final Texts. Rules for the Analysis of Text Structure. Chronological Listing of Participants' Narratives. Rules for Aggregating Conversational Interchanges. Coding the World of Discourse. Week-by-Week Analysis of the Class.

O autorze

Cheryl Geisler