Risk as productive: Working with dilemmas in the writing of research

Risk in Academic Writing: Postgraduate Students, Their Teachers and the Making of Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-24

  Thesen, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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EID: 84948128517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.21832/9781783091065-004     Document Type: Editorial

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