Whose voice is right when I wright? Identity in academic writing

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dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Catherineen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-31T07:13:32Z
dc.date.available2017-05-31T07:13:32Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionCITATION: Robertson, C. 2016. Whose Voice is Right when I Write? Identity in Academic Writing, in L. Frick, P. Motshoane, C. McMaster & C. Murphy (eds.). Postgraduate Study in South Africa: Surviving and Succeeding. Stellenbosch: SUN PRESS. 145-155. doi:10.18820/9781928357247/13.en_ZA
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dc.description.abstractINTRODUCTION: Paré (2010:40) relates a story of a student who sees the postgraduate journey as being on a bus and says, “I’m not quite sure yet where it’s going. The scary part is that I am the one driving the bus.” I, on the other hand, as a mature student who returned to an academic pursuit after many years, saw my postgraduate journey as far more arduous than a bus trip. I felt as if I had to summit a mountain, the peak of which remained shrouded. Every inch of my climb produced further challenges (not to mention the heady rush of vertigo I experienced most of the time). Sometimes, I had to retrace my steps to find a safer, easier way to keep up the momentum. At other times, I was ready to admit that I was no mountaineer and that I had taken on the impossible. What I found to be the most difficult was to get started; to settle down and write. Something kept blocking me. It did not mean that I had not read sufficiently, that my data was inadequate, or that I did not know what I wanted to say; I simply found starting to write challenging. There is a great deal of advice available to people who have writer’s block. “Just start writing”, people say cheerfully, “and it will all come to you”. Others advised, “Write early and write often” (Lee & Aitchison 2009:94). The problem is that it is only once you have found your way on the mountain, which you eventually do, that this advice makes sense to you.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationRobertson, C. 2016. Whose Voice is Right when I Write? Identity in Academic Writing, in L. Frick, P. Motshoane, C. McMaster & C. Murphy (eds.). Postgraduate Study in South Africa: Surviving and Succeeding. Stellenbosch: SUN PRESS. 145-155. doi:10.18820/9781928357247/13.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1928357-23-0en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn978-1-928357-24-7en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.18820/9781928357247/13
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101629
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherSUN MeDIAen_ZA
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dc.relation.haspartPublish or Perish? Communicating Research with the Publicen_ZA
dc.relation.haspartStudent-Supervisor Relationships in a Complex Society: A Dual Narrative of Scholarly Becomingen_ZA
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101627
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101625
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/101626
dc.rights.holderSUN MeDIAen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversities and colleges -- Graduate worken_ZA
dc.subjectEducation, Higheren_ZA
dc.subjectHigher educationen_ZA
dc.subjectScholarly writingen_ZA
dc.titleWhose voice is right when I wright? Identity in academic writingen_ZA
dc.typeChapters in Booksen_ZA
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