Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179).

Chapter One: What's Academic? What's Alternative? -- What is Academic Writing? What Are Its Standards? -- What Constitutes an Alternative to Academic Writing? -- Disciplines, Genres, and Research on Alternative Discourses and the Academy -- Our Methods and Materials -- Chapter Two: Faculty Speak about Their Writing, Disciplines, and Alternatives -- Disciplinary Standards vs. Academic Standards -- The Analytic Academy: Tension between Reason, Emotion, and the Body -- Allowed Alternatives -- Working Outside Disciplinary Boundaries -- Chapter Three: How Our Informants Teach Students to Write -- How to think like a scientist: Teaching the Tools of the Discipline -- Good writing is good writing: Perceiving the Universal in the Disciplinary -- Neither This nor That: Alternative Exigencies, Alternative Forms -- New Media, Hypermedia, Multimedia -- Faculty Expectations as Seen in Department Assessment Rubrics -- Conclusion: The Standards vs. the Alternative -- Chapter Four: Students Speak about Expectations, Confidence, and How They Learn -- Our Sources of Data -- Student Expectations for Writing in Their Disciplines -- Passion and the Discipline -- How Students Learn to Write in Their Disciplines -- How Our Students Perceptions Relate to the Taxonomy of Alternatives -- Chapter Five: Implications for Teaching and Program Building -- Conclusions -- The Discipline and the Passion -- Alternative Discourses -- Five Contexts for Writing Assignments -- Stages of Writing Development into a Discipline -- Tension between Individual Desire and Disciplinary Convention -- Practices for Teachers -- Practices for Faculty and Program Development -- Directions for Future Research -- Works Cited.

"This book shows faculty and student writers taking risks with form and ideas as they weigh the demands of writing in the academy with their own passions for learning and self-expression. Thaiss and Zawacki demonstrate that academic disciplines are dynamic spaces that accommodate a variety of alternative styles and visions, even as they respect careful, systematic research." --Book Jacket.

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