Writing Games: Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education

by Christine Pears Casanave and Christine Pearson Casanave

Book Overview

This book explores how writers from several different cultures learn to write in their academic settings, and how their writing practices interact with and contribute to their evolving identities as students and professionals in academic environments in higher education.

Embedded in a theoretical framework of situated practice, the naturalistic case studies and literacy autobiographies include portrayals of undergraduate students and teachers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080583530X
• ISBN13: 9780805835304
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"