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Gimenez, Julio – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
Generic attributes such as "holding a critical stance", "using evidence to support claims", and "projecting an impersonal voice" are central to disciplinary academic writing in higher education. These attributes, also referred to as "skills", have for a long time been conceptualised as transferable in that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Obstetrics, Writing Instruction
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Lay, Mary M.; And Others – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1996
Applies and tests Foucault's theories about local centers of power and knowledge by rhetorically analyzing a Minnesota Midwifery Study Advisory Group. Illustrates how knowledge may be produced/suppressed and how a rhetor may become empowered by projecting negative traits upon the "other." Demonstrates how some traditional midwives…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discourse Analysis, Obstetrics, Power Structure