Worlds Apart

Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts

By: Patrick Dias, Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway

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Paperback | 1 April 1999 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society A Series of Monographs Edited By Charles Bazerman	p. ii
Editor's Introduction	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction Researching Writing At School and at Work	p. 3
Situating Writing	p. 17
University Writing	p. 43
The Social Motive Of University Writing	p. 47
Complications And Tensions	p. 65
Writing and the Formation Of the Architect	p. 82
Workplace Writing	p. 113
The Complexity Of Social Motive In Workplace Writing	p. 117
From Words to Bricks Writing in An Architectural Practice	p. 151
Transitions	p. 183
Students And Workers Learning	p. 185
Virtual Realities Transitions from University To Workplace Writing	p. 201
References	p. 222
Contexts for Writing University And Work Compared	p. 236
Author Index	p. 246
Subject Index	p. 249
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