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Summary Of The Essay By Clair Woods

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The essay by Clair Woods is concerned with how undergraduate students in creature writing courses- are inducted into ‘the world of research’. And how their writing activity in their courses fits alongside the more conventional academic discourse. The essay acknowledges that students enrol in undergraduate writing programs without thinking of the research and academic study then will be required to undertake either in their writing program or discipline sub-majors. With a series of in-class surveys conducted in 2009, Woods discovered that the majority of undergraduate students found adapting their creative writing for university contexts as ‘distancing’ de-inscribing themselves, their knowledge and creativity. In comparison, third and fourth
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