Journal Review ; Writing in the university: education, knowledge and reputation By Ken Hyland
In the abstract section in this paper it challenges the broad view that writing is somehow part of a more serious aspect of university life - conducting research and teaching students. Seeing literacy as embedded in individual disciplinary beliefs and practices, rather than generic skills that students fail to develop in school, helps explain the difficulties students and academics have in controlling the conventions of disciplinary discourse. In the end, and in an important sense, we are what we write, and we need to understand the unique ways our disciplines deal with colleagues and submit arguments, because through language academics and students conceptualize their subjects and debate their claims persuasively. In the article that I read in the literature review section, it was inserted or put together with an introduction. The author draws on some of the research he has done over the past ten years, the author has explored what it means to write in the aca...