Journal article
Defining professional writing as an area of scholarly activity
TEXT, Vol.4(2), pp.1-8
2000
Abstract
This paper sets out to claim the discipline of professional writing as a legitimate and significant area of pedagogy, analysis and research, and not merely (as it is often crudely misperceived or, in the current climate, legitimised) as a market-driven, instrumental field, whose raison d’etre is simply to teach students rules, formulae and mnemonics for writing pithy documents that ‘sell’. Professional discourse, now proliferating in the print and electronic media, regularly interweaves a complex of languages - those of specialist and public/general knowledges, of information and persuasion, of public and community relations, of law and regulation, of citizenship and morality. It seems to me to be crucial that we provide a space for students to develop as critical writers and readers of those cultural texts, which to such a great extent regulate and organise our environments of government, industry, institution, community and home.
Details
- Title
- Defining professional writing as an area of scholarly activity
- Authors/Creators
- Anne Surma (Author) - Murdoch University, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication Details
- TEXT, Vol.4(2), pp.1-8
- Publisher
- Australian Association of Writing Programs
- Identifiers
- 991005846364607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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