Bush Telegraph: Readings in Writing

Luke Strongman

Nov 2014 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

About this ebook

A “bush telegraph” is an antipodean slang noun phrase for a “grapevine” or an informal network of communication. The title of this book on English language use comes from the fact that the book is written from the southern hemisphere (where the idea of a “bush telegraph” is more widely-known) and because the concept of a “bush telegraph” describes what the book provides – a discussion of salient points in English language use and tertiary teaching across branches of interrelated interests. Each chapter of Bush Telegraph describes aspects of English writing culture. Separately and together, these 20 chapters teach, elucidate, analyse, and discuss crucial aspects of English writing culture, in order to communicate central ideas in, and improve knowledge of, English language writing culture.

About the author

Luke Strongman received a PhD in English from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has written literary criticism on Booker Prize winning authors’ works, a book on academic writing (also with Cambridge Scholars Publishing), co-authored a text on distance education teaching pedagogy, and authored several other books of essays in social sciences. He teaches at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.