Volume 34 in the New Perspectives on Language and Education series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

''This book brings together a variety of voices - students and teachers, journal editors and authors, writers from the global north and south - to interrogate the notion of risk as it applies to the production of academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a productive force in teaching, learning and writing, and one that can be used to challenge the silences and erasures inherent in academic tradition and convention. Widening participation and the internalisation of higher education make questions of language, register, agency and identity in postgraduate writing all the more pressing, and this book offers a powerful argument against the further reinforcement of a 'northern' Anglophone understanding of knowledge and its production and dissemination. This volume will provide food-for-thought for post graduate students and their supervisors everywhere." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

Introduction

Risk as Productive: Working with Dilemmas in the Writing of Research / Lucia Thesen

PART 1: DELETION AND AGENCY

1. 'Does my experience count?' The role of experimental knowledge in the research writing of postgraduate adult learners / Linda Cooper

2. A lovely imposition: The complexity of writing a thesis in isiXhosa / Somikazi Deyi

PART 2: STRATEGIES FOR HYBRIDITY: WRITING TOGETHER

3. Negotiating alternate discourses in academic writing and publishing: Risks with hybridity / Suresh Canagarajah and Ena Lee

4. Academic writing and research at an Afropolitan university: An International student perspective / Aditi Hunma and Emmanuel Sibomana

PART 3: PEDAGOGIES THAT INVITE THE EDGE

5. Rehearsing 'the Postgraduate Condition' in Writers' Circles / Clement Mapfuno Chihota and Lucia Thesen

6. Genre: A Piegeonhole or a Pigeon? Case Studies of the Dilemmas Posed by the Writing of Academic Research Proposals / Moragh Paxton

7. Of house and home: Reflections on knowing and writing for a 'southern' postgraduate pedagogy / Kate Cadman

PART 4: READING THE WORLD IN STUDENTS' WRITING

8. 'Error' of ghost text? Reading, ethnopoetics and knowledge making / Mary Scott

9. 'It was hardly about writing': Translations of experience on entering post graduate studies / Moeain Arend

PART 5: PERIPHERAL VISION: REFLECTIONS FROM NORTH AND SOUTH

10. Resonances, resistances and relations: Reflecting on the politics of risk in academic knowledge making / Theresa Lillis

11. Both dead and alive: Schrödinger's cat in the contact zone / Brenda Cooper

Index