Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780805821475 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 266 str.

Patrick Dias; Aviva Freedman; Peter Medway

Opis

This work provides an examination of the relationship between written communication in academic and workplace contexts. It is aimed at writing researchers, teachers, programme designers, and others concerned with writing in academic and business arenas.

Recenzje

"This book has a worthy goal: to compare the writing done in university courses that attempt to prepare students for professional careers with the writing done in the actual workplaces where these same students intend to find jobs....The results are rich in telling details that support the claim of the title Worlds Apart: When students move from classroom to workplace, no only do the purposes for their writing change, but the change in settings affects their work as well. The examples, quotations, and stories that attest to these contrasts form the best part of this book."
—Technical Communication

Spis treści

Contents: Editor's Introduction. Preface. Part I: Introduction. Introduction: Researching Writing at School and at Work. Situating Writing. Part II: University Writing. The Social Motive of University Writing. Complications and Tensions. Writing and the Formation of the Architect. Part III: Workplace Writing. The Complexity of Social Motive in Workplace Writing. Distributed Cognition at Work. From Words to Bricks: Writing in an Architectural Practice. Part IV: Transitions. Students and Workers Learning. Virtual Realities: Transitions From University to Workplace Writing. Contexts for Writing: University and Work Compared.

O autorze

Patrick Dias, Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway andAnthony Pare