What is it about?
This book illustrates the use of ethnography as an analytical approach to investigate academic writing, and provides critical insights into how academic writing research can benefit from the use of ethnographic methods. It discusses ethnography-related concepts like thick description, deep theorizing, participatory research, research reflexivity or ethics against the affordances of ethnography for the study of academic writing.
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Why is it important?
The book is key reading for scholars, researchers and instructors in the areas of applied linguistics, academic writing, academic literacies and genre studies. It will also be useful to those lecturers and postgraduate students working in English for Academic Purposes and disciplinary writing. The chapters in the book contain clear pointers about how ethnographically-oriented researchers should go about incorporating the telling of the inside story into their traditional main role as observers.
Perspectives
This book is highly significant for understanding what a critical reflection on ethnography as a method or a methodology should be and comprise. The basis for this reflection is Academic Writing research, but it can also be used as a starting point for the methodological evaluation of ethnography for other related broader fields such as specialized communication.
IGNACIO GUILLEN-GALVE
Universidad de Zaragoza
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This page is a summary of: Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research, September 2021, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/rmal.1.
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