On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing

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On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing foregrounds the contemporary condition of academic writing in international higher education. It pits the continuing ideological resonance of historically formed stylistic and aesthetic values against the contingency and instability of international English in real-life institutional contexts. It brings out the theoretical significance of this, as writing becomes a motor of linguistic change and can no longer be seen simply as the repository of standards. This conceptual shift is placed in the broader historical context of leaving the era of print culture. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents 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 Bibliography Index