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A GEOPOLITICS OF ACADEMIC WRITING
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| By: |
Suresh Canagarajah |
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| ISBN 10: |
0822957949 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780822957942 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 2002 |
| Series: |
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
This work acts as a critique of current scholarly publishing practices, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized. It examines three broad conventions governing academic writing: textual concerns, social customs,and publishing practices. |
| Synopsis: |
A Geopolitics of Academic Writing critiques current scholarly publishing practices, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized. As a periphery scholar now working in (and writing from) the center, A. Suresh Canagarajah is uniquely situated to demonstrate how and why contributions from Third World scholars are too often relegated to the perimeter of academic discourse. He examines three broad conventions governing academic writing: textual concerns (matters of languages, style, tone, and structure), social customs (the rituals governing the interactions of members of the academic community), and publishing practices (from submission protocols to photocopying and postage requirements). Canagarajah argues that the dominance of Western conventions in scholarly communication leads directly to the marginalization or appropriation of the knowledge of Third World communities. |
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US |
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University of Pittsburgh Press |
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