Taking shape

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Taking shape

• Ann Luzeckyj

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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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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)

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Building your corpus
Supervisors / experts
Data collection
Interviews Focus groups etc
Bibliographies
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And what shape

• Should it take?
• Can it take?
• Will it take?
• And how much of this is in our control?

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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)

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Mapping the field
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When is it shaped has it become a text?
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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,
  ltwww.nteu.org.au/publications/aurgt.
• 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, lthttp//www.educ.utas.ed
  u.au/conference/proceedings.htmlgt
• 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.