Grant seeking - the first step in knowledge production - has been an indispensable part of academic life, yet a challenging task for neophyte as well as veteran scholars. We are always curious about how grant winners compose their abstracts, cite previous work, present their proposed study, and negotiate with gate-keepers behind the scene. Building upon ethnographic data and a large corpus of authentic research grant proposals and grant reviews, this book intends to demystify the grant seeking activity. It is an invaluable resource for grant agencies, grant reviewers and grant writers, particularly novice grant writers and/or non-native English writers. Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity is however more than a resource book. It is one of the few studies that draw upon two genre theories, encompass both quantitative and qualitative research approaches, and unite an exploration of macro-level recurrences in discursive activity and micro-level examinations of individual writers' agency, positioning, negotiation and identity construction. It enhances our understanding of the development of professional expertise in academia and thus will be of interest to researchers in the fields of academic writing, genre analysis and Language for Specific Purposes (LSP).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang A&G, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-13
9783034305464
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114849649
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Data Analysis, Religious Sociology
Author
Haying Feng
Publication Name
Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity: Academic Writing and Professional Expertise
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Education
Publication Year
2011
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
270 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
220mm
Item Width
150mm
Volume
366
Item Weight
430g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Haying Feng
Series Title
Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes