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    "pk": 3232,
    "title": "Recognizing and Escaping the Sham: Authority Moves, Truth Claims and the Fiction of Academic Writing About Adult Learning",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This paper seeks to explore the meaning of  the sham with regards to academic writing. It challenges the  fundamental assumptions that underpin conventional academic writing and  suggests that such writing is actually less honest than the other forms  of writing that it sets itself against. It is precisely the reliance on  what Laurel Richardson calls the “authority moves” (1997, p.167) of academic language that undermines its claim to represent reality in an open and honest way. It is, in fact, a sham.\nThe  rejection of the superior truth claims of academic writing is  illustrated with reference to two interview transcripts from a completed  study and the issues raised are explored theoretically in the light of  the work of Hélène Cixous. It is argued that the adoption of Hélène  Cixous’ notion of l’écriture feminine provides a way out of the dilemma.  Inspired by Cixous, it is argued that it is possible to escape the  limitations of conventional academic writing firstly through the  incorporation of a kind of writing practice which has more in common  with poetry than rational argument and secondly through the  incorporation of generically diverse texts within the social science  research text.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "resilience"
        },
        {
            "word": "adult learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "Cixous"
        },
        {
            "word": "Academic Writing"
        },
        {
            "word": "Arts and Humanities"
        },
        {
            "word": "Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research"
        },
        {
            "word": "English Language and Literature, General"
        },
        {
            "word": "Women's Studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "Feminist Philosophy"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2164s2gc",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Elizabeth",
            "middle_name": "Chapman",
            "last_name": "Hoult",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Canterbury Christ Church University, UK",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2011-02-14T17:07:44Z",
    "date_accepted": "2011-02-14T17:07:44Z",
    "date_published": "2012-06-14T23:57:17Z",
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}