Peripheral and semi-peripheral writing (Karen Bennett)

On my reading list

This edited collection is interesting because it examines how academic writing is shaped by and shapes glocal social practices:

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-semiperiphery-of-academic-writing-karen-bennett/?K=9781137351180 (forthcoming in October 2014)

Chapter 12 is on the academic weblog:

  • what academic criteria does a blog fulfil?
  • can we classify it as ‘academic writing’?
  • if (not) so, on what grounds?

A book that deals with the evolving fluidity of genres…..

Thank you, Karen Bennett, for your correspondence.