Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise: Reading, Writing, and Knowing in Academic Philosophy / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780805810684 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 06/01/1994 Edition description: New Edition Pages: 376 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d) The first full-length account integrating both the cognitive and sociological aspects of reading and writing in the academy, this unique volume covers educational research on reading and writing, rhetorical research on writing in the disciplines, cognitive research on expertise in ill-defined problems, and sociological and historical research on the professions. The author produced this volume as a result of a research program aimed at understanding the relationship between two concepts — literacy and expertise — which traditionally have been treated as quite separate phenomena. A burgeoning literature on reading and writing in the academy has begun to indicate fairly consistent patterns in how students acquire literacy practices. This literature shows, furthermore, that what'students do is quite distinct from