"The term 'writtenness' is used to describe highlight a socio-academic criterion that is often taken-for-granted. The trope 'well written' is widespread but it is rarely very clearly defined and not adequately described by theory. This book redresses...
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"The term 'writtenness' is used to describe highlight a socio-academic criterion that is often taken-for-granted. The trope 'well written' is widespread but it is rarely very clearly defined and not adequately described by theory. This book redresses that neglect by contextualizing writtenness as a focal issue in the contemporary context of international higher education. The quality of academic writing is often the source of both practical and ethical dilemmas in the academy, while at the same time the social value and productive role of the writing in the communication of knowledge are underestimated. The book interrogates the cultural power and value of writtenness, while also revealing its relative misrepresentation within academic culture at large. The conceptual relevance of writtenness is accentuated in the current geopolitical context of English language dominance, where it is at the hub of both centripetal and centrifugal forces. On the one hand, there is a widespread uniformity in notions of style and accuracy which academic writing is deemed to embody and represent, while on the other, with English as the lingua franca in different academic and geographic contexts globally, and different varieties of English proliferating, writtenness becomes a site of struggle"-- 1. On writtenness : an introductory overview -- 2. On the historical construction of writtenness as an ideological regime -- 3. On the underlying values of writtenness as a transdisciplinary criterion -- 4. On polished prose and its frictions : the contemporary politics of academic style -- 5. On the elite and remedial economy of English in international higher education -- 6. On producing writtenness : misrecognized value, mystical process, misunderstood pedagogies, misaligned roles -- 7. On writtenness and textual trade : ethical boundaries, inequitable assessment and institutional complicity -- 8. On proofreading and its indexicalities : social attitudes, the student experience, textual mobility and print culture in transition -- 9. On written English in flux : disrupting the smooth read.
