Writing games
Subtitle: multicultural case studies of academic literacy practices in higher education
By: Christine Pearson Casanave.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- Case studies.; English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Foreign speakers -- Case studies.; Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- Case studies.; Second language acquisition -- Case studies.; Multicultural education -- Case studies.; Educational games -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. GAMES AND FRAMES: WHEN WRITING IS MORE THAN 1; title: WRITING; title: A Word on Frames 1; title: Common Sense Beginnings 3; title: Framing in the Voices of Others 13; title: Assumptions: The End of the Beginning 29; title: Case Study Methodology 31; title: 2. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHANGE: LEARNING AND TEACHING 35; title: UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC LITERACY GAMES; title: Clueless 35; title: Published Studies 37; title: Case Study: Communities of Practice? Game Strategies; title: in Two Teachers' EAP Classes in a Japanese University 53; title: Chapter Reflections 78; title: 3. STEPPING INTO THE PROFESSION: WRITING GAMES 8 2; title: IN MASTERS PROGRAMS; title: From Observer to Participant 82; title: Published Studies 84; title: Case Study: Five Masters Students Step Into the Second; title: Language Education Profession 92; title: Chapter Reflections 128; title: 4. REDEFINING THE SELF: THE UNSETTLING DOCTORAL 13 4; title: PROGRAM GAME; title: From Clarity to Confusion 134; title: Published Studies 136; title: Case Study: Virginia: Not Her Kind of Game 149; title: Chapter Reflections 176; title: 5. JUGGLING AND BALANCING GAMES OF BILINGUAL FACULTY 17 8; title: Personal Reflections on Multilingualism 178; title: Published Studies 181; title: Case Study: The Juggling Games of Bilingual Faculty 191; title: Chapter Reflections 216; title: 6. BENDING THE RULES 220; title: Conforming and Resisting 220; title: Published Studies 225; title: Case Study: Author-Editor Games in the Construction; title: of Unconventional Textual Identities 233; title: The Authors 235; title: Issues 238; title: Chapter Reflections 254; title: 7. THE PARADOXICAL EFFORT AFTER COHERENCE IN 256; title: ACADEMIC WRIING GAMES; title: Games, Transitions, and Identity Revisited 260; title: Effort After Coherence 265; title: The End and the Continuation 279.