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Taking shape

Taking shape. Ann Luzeckyj. A process of - layering of knowledge. Introduction to critical ideas. Understanding theories behind ideas. Developing an understanding of the “literatures”. Choosing the appropriate tools. It begins to take shape (but learning and confusion continue).

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Taking shape

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  1. Taking shape Ann Luzeckyj

  2. A process of - layering of knowledge Introduction to critical ideas Understanding theories behind ideas Developing an understanding of the “literatures” Choosing the appropriate tools It begins to take shape (but learning and confusion continue)

  3. Defining Shape - When is a text? The question ‘when is a text’ immediately suggests an engagement with that which is deemed to be ‘not-text’, or that which is defined as outside or other to text at any given point. For example, many of the discussions about the constitution of the text take up conceptual questions of the relations between text and context or between text and commentary. (Lee 2005)

  4. Building your corpus Supervisors / experts Data collection Interviews Focus groups etc Bibliographies

  5. And what shape… • Should it take? • Can it take? • Will it take? • And how much of this is in our control?

  6. The processes involved in shaping the text? • Fraud paranoia • Reading depression • Never-ending story delirium • Motion sickness • Been there, done that illness • Pre-emptive strike syndrome (Fleming 2006)

  7. Mapping the field

  8. When is it “shaped” – has it become “a text”?

  9. References Fairclough, N 1995, Critical discourse analyses: the critical study of language, Pearson Education Limited, Harlow. Fleming, C 2006, 'Diseases of the thesis', Australian Universities Review, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 30 -31, viewed: 28 June 2006, <www.nteu.org.au/publications/aur>. Foucault, M 1994, 'What is an author?' in Michel Foucault, Aesthetics, Essential works of Foucault 1954 - 1984, Volume two, vol. 2, ed. JD Faubion, Penguin, London, pp. 205 - 222. Gee, JP 1999, An introduction to discourse analyses: Theory and method, Routledge, London. Lee, A 2005, 'When is a Text?' paper presented at the Proceedings of the International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory into Research, Launceston, Tasmania, November 2005, Viewed: 12 February 2006, <http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/conference/proceedings.html> Luke, A. (2000). Critical literacy in Australia: A matter of context and standpoint. Journal of adolescent and adult literacy, 43(5). Viewed: 28 July 2006, from Academic Search Premier.

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