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Academic Writing, Creative Pleasure and the Salvaging of Joy

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Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University

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We met in a women’s writing group in north Queensland long before we became academics, but it seems the passions for writing otherwise that brought us together then have infused our writing ever since.

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Gannon, S., Lampert, J. (2017). Academic Writing, Creative Pleasure and the Salvaging of Joy. In: Riddle, S., Harmes, M.K., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-179-7_15

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