Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise: Reading, Writing, and Knowing in Academic Philosophy

by Cheryl Geisler

Book Overview

The first full-length account integrating both the cognitive and sociological aspects of reading and writing in the academy, this unique volume covers educational research on reading and writing, rhetorical research on writing in the disciplines, cognitive research on expertise in ill-defined problems, and sociological and historical research on the professions.

The author produced this volume as a result of a research program aimed at understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805810684
• ISBN13: 9780805810684
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"