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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-362) and index
Ch. 1 - Introduction - pt. 1 - Theoretical Approaches to Writing and Identity - Ch. 2 - Discourse and identity - Ch. 3 - Literacy and identity - Ch. 4 - Issues of identity in academic writing - pt. 2 - The Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing: An investigation with eight mature students - Ch. 5 - Introduction to Part Two - Ch. 6 - Rachel Dean: A case study of writing and identity - Ch. 7 - The origins of discoursal identity in writers' experience - Ch. 8 - The sense of self and the role of the reader in the discoursal construction of writer identity - Ch. 9 - The discoursal construction of academic community membership - Ch. 10 - Multiple possibilities for self hood in the academic discourse community - Ch. 11 - Writer identity on the agenda in theory and in practice
Writing is not just about conveying 'content' but also about the representation of self. (One of the reasons people find writing difficult is that they do not feel comfortable with the 'me' they are portraying in their writing. Academic writing in particular often poses a conflict of identity for students in higher education, because the 'self' which is inscribed in academic discourse feels alien to them.)The main claim of this book is that writing is an act of identity in which people align themselves with socio-culturally shaped subject positions, and thereby play their part in reproducing o
