A Case Study of Research-Based Collaboration around Writing in Social Work

Autor/inn/en	Lillis, Theresa; Rai, Lucy
Titel	A Case Study of Research-Based Collaboration around Writing in Social Work
Quelle	In: Across the Disciplines, 8 (2011) 3 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-8244
Schlagwörter	Social Work; Content Area Writing; Ethnography; Collaborative Writing; Epistemology; Writing (Composition); Interdisciplinary Approach; Research Projects; Language Usage + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Arbeit; Schriftliche Übung; Ethnografie; Erkenntnistheorie; Schreibübung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Forschungsvorhaben; Sprachgebrauch
Abstract	This paper discusses an ongoing research-based collaboration between an academic literacies researcher and a lecturer in the field of Social Work aimed at exploring the nature of everyday writing in social work. The paper outlines the key principles of the methodology adopted--a text-oriented ethnography--and discusses the extent to which this methodology is facilitating a collaborative partnership towards meeting three interrelated goals: the empirical goal of building rich descriptions of writing in everyday social work practice; the ideological-epistemological goal of challenging a deficit discourse on writing (and writers); and the interventionist goal of working with institutions to harness writing in productive ways to learning and professional practice. Central to this methodological approach is an attempt to build a three-way conversation between the fields of "new" literacy studies, in particular academic literacies; the discipline of social work education; and social work agencies/practitioners. We outline the methodology and foreground some key congruencies across these fields which are helping to facilitate successful collaboration. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01