Description: Writing Games - Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education Christine Pears Casanave is available to download 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.This material is available do download at niSearch.com on Christine Pears Casanave's eBooks, Embedded in a theoretical framework of situated practice, the naturalistic case studies and literacy autobiographies include portrayals of undergraduate students and teachers, master's level students, doctoral students, young bilingual faculty, and established scholars, all of whom are struggling to understand their roles in ambiguously defined communities of academic writers.Writing Games - Multicultural ... Textbook In addition to the notion of situated practice, the other powerful concept used as an interpretive framework is captured by the metaphor of "games"--a metaphor designed to emphasize that the practice of academic writing is shaped but not dictated by rules and conventions that writing games consist of the practice of playing, not the rules themselves and that writers have choices about whether and how to play. Focusing on people rather than experiments, numbers, and abstractions, this interdisc...

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