| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 194 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Contents |
List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The teaching of academic writing; Chapter 2: From social genre towards pedagogy; Chapter 3: Constraints on a cognitive genre construct; Chapter 4: Operationalizing cognitive genres in academic writing; Chapter 5: Relating cognitive genres to the teaching and learning of writing; Chapter 6: The scope of social genre knowledge; Chapter 7: Teaching genre knowledge in an advanced writing course; References; Appendix 1 Crombies interpropositional relations; Appendix 2 Corpus study: selection method, population and sample. |
| Summary |
The focus of this book is the use of genre-based approaches to teaching academic writing. Genre-based courses enable second language learners to integrate their linguistic, organisational and contextual knowledge in a variety of different tasks. The book reviews pedagogical approaches to genre through English for Specific Purposes and Systemic Functional Linguistics to present a synthesis of the current research being undertaken in the field. From this theoretical base, Ian Bruce proposes a new model of genre-based approaches to academic writing, and analyses the ways in which this can be impl. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literary form -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Literary form. |
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Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) |
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Academic writing. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bruce, Ian, 1953- Academic writing and genre. London : Continuum, ©2008 (DLC) 2008295290 (OCoLC)156830876 |
| ISBN |
9781441136473 (electronic book) |
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1441136479 (electronic book) |
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128245224X |
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9781282452244 |
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9780826498441 (hardback) |
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0826498442 (hardback) |
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