Lucia Thesen is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is the co-editor (with Linda Cooper) of Risk in Academic Writing: Postgraduate Students, their Teachers and the Making of Knowledge (Multilingual Matters, 2014).

In this beautifully crafted text Lucia Thesen offers deep insights into those unseen aspects of knowledge-making, the ‘back stuff’ of postgraduate writing. She immerses the reader in the ‘extra-textual’ life surrounding writing, through a visceral journey into the ‘swampy space’ of a postgraduate writers' circle. With its deep ethnography and interwoven theoretical resources, this book provides a fresh way of reimagining research writing.

• FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Writers’ Circle as a Portal to Knowledge-Making           Chapter 1. A Threshold Space of Difference: Introducing the Thursday Circle       Chapter 2. The Yellow Folders Draw Me In: Looking for the Trace            Chapter 3. Surface Tension: Writing in the Shadow of the God View        Chapter 4. HA HA HA: Shaking the Tree of LanguageChapter 5. One Word at a Time: Finding Rhythm in Writing         Chapter 6. Punctuating the Flow: Reflections from Beyond the Circle      Chapter 7. ‘I remember a few rogue popcorns’: Teaching for the Trace (with Clement Chihota and Aditi Hunma)Conclusion: Knowledge-Making at the Water PointReferencesIndex