Includes bibliographical references and index.

Risk as productive : working with dilemmas in the writing of research / Lucia Thesen -- "Does my experience count?" : the role of experiential knowledge in the research writing of postgraduate adult learners / Linda Cooper -- A lovely imposition : the complexity of writing a thesis in isiXhosa / Somikazi Deyi -- Negotiating alternative discourses in academic writing and publishing : risks with hybridity / Suresh Canagarajah and Ena Lee -- Academic writing and research at an Afropolitan university : an international student perspective / Aditi Hunma and Emmanuel Sibomana -- Rehearsing the "postgraduate condition" in writers' circles / Clement Mapfumo Chihota and Lucia Thesen -- Genre : a pigeonhole or a pigeon? Case studies of the dilemmas posed by the writing of academic research proposals / Moragh Paxton -- Of house and home : reflections on knowing and writing for a "southern" postgraduate pedagogy / Kate Cadman -- "Error" or ghost text? Reading, ethnopoetics, and knowledge making / Mary Scott -- "It was hardly about writing" : translations of experience on entering postgraduate studies / Moeain Arend -- Resonances, resistances and relations : reflecting on the politics of risk in academic knowledge-making / Theresa Lillis -- Both dead and alive : Schrödinger's Cat in the contact zone / Brenda Cooper.