Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780805821475 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 04/01/1999 Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series Pages: 266 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) Lexile: 1410L (what's this?) 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