A Philosophical Approach to Perceptions of Academic Writing Practices in Higher Education Through a Glass Darkly

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A Philosophical Approach to Perceptions of Academic Writing Practices in Higher Education Through a Glass Darkly

Amanda French - Personal Name;

This book takes a philosophical approach to the question ‘what is academic
writing?’ and specifically explores the question of how academic writing and
writing development can be better understood and developed by lecturers
in higher education.

It examines how a number of interconnected and interdisciplinary polit-
ical, linguistic, discursive, ontological and epistemological frameworks can

be used to inform a ‘post-qualitative’ approach for research into higher
education academic writing practices, employing a Bourdusian/ Deluzean

inspired approach. Using lecturers’ own perceptions and experiences of aca-
demic writing, and treating them as part of a ‘professional academic writing

in higher education habitus’, the book illustrates and analyses a number of
ideas and concepts through a broadly post-qualitative paradigm. It also offers
a number of innovative academic writing and writing development practices.
Offering an in-depth discussion into how lecturers might better negotiate
academic writing practices and use their own academic writing experiences
to develop students’ writing, this book will be highly relevant to academics,
scholars and post-graduate students working in higher education.