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To Be Native or Not to Be Native: That Is Not the Question

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The Lucky Anglophone Scholar Doctrine as the privileged orthodoxy in the domain of scholarly publication portrays Anglophone scholars as an undifferentiated mass bestowed with symbolic, social, and cultural capitals for scholarly publication by virtue of their native speaker status or membership in prestigious institutions of higher education. This dominant discourse has resulted in an approach to research which has extremely marginalized and underrepresented writing for scholarly publication practices of Anglophone scholars. This chapter presents a critical perspective on the discourse of The Lucky Anglophone Scholar doctrine and highlights the exigency of further empirical research into writing for scholarly publication practices of Anglophone scholars, especially novice scholars.

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Habibie, P. (2019). To Be Native or Not to Be Native: That Is Not the Question. In: Habibie, P., Hyland, K. (eds) Novice Writers and Scholarly Publication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95333-5_3

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