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The open book : stories of academic life and writing, or, where we know things

Meier, Ninna, author, Wegener, Charlotte, author

Overview

\"The Open Book' is a radical genre blend: it is an experimental co-memoir exploring the role of writing in academia. It contains stories about life without censoring and without distinguishing between traditional work/life domains and academic/non-academic ways of writing. This is done through discussions of conferences, research collaborations, supervision, taboo pleasures of 'fun' writing projects, the temptations of other work, and the everyday life encounters and experiences that stimulate academic thought and writing. Some of the main characters you will meet are researchers, their colleagues and students, sons and daughters, mothers and grandmothers, husbands (past and present), supervisors, pets, old and new friends, and creatures from myths and dreams. Some of the settings include kitchens, fireplaces, couches, gardens, universities, cars, and trains. These characters and places are all there to help examine what the above elements of an ordinary human life might mean 'in' research and 'for' research. Thus, it becomes possible for you as a reader to recognize the stories as both truly human and genuinely academic. This is the first book in a series of publications and projects from the Open Writing Community: a collaboration of academics from different disciplines and countries that seeks to push the boundaries of how we understand and practice academic work and writing.\"--Cover, page 4.

• Publisher: Sense Publishers
• Subject: Authorship Anecdotes. / Academic writing Anecdotes. / Universities and colleges Faculty Anecdotes. / Work-life balance Anecdotes.
• ISBN: 9463009876, 9789463009881, 9463009884, 9789463009874

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN146.M45 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE