ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the difficulties inherent in the development of an authorial voice in academic writing, some of the hindrances that student's experience, in particular how the use of sources and feedback on referencing can inhibit this development in important ways. Detecting the voice of the author when reading a text, which itself is using multiple sources, is as challenging as constructing one's essay in such a way that one's own authorial voice comes through. For Lindiwe and Tshediso the solution is simply to portray an author's discussion of another author as the work of the author they read. Tshediso's first essay shows clear evidence of this: Liberal democratic practices diverge from those specified in its theory. In 'Democratic Liberalism in South Africa', Welsh says there is 'evidence of a perverse unwillingness to strip away the veils that hide and mystify the class relations of a developing capitalist system fundamentally oriented to the goal of capital accumulation'.
