Worlds Apart

Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts

Patrick Dias, Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway , Anthony Par

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Routledge
01 April 1999

Writing & editing guides; Communication studies; Business communication & presentation; Secretarial, clerical & office skills

Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series

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.

By: Patrick Dias, Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway, Anthony Par
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9780805821475
ISBN 10: 0805821473
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 01 April 1999
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patrick Dias, Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway and Anthony Pare

Reviews for Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts

"""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"