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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 implemented in pedagogy and curriculum design. Academic Writing and Genre is a cutting-edge monograph which will be essential reading for researchers in applied linguistics.

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It is a significant contribution to the genre discussion in general, and to the teaching of academic writing in particular...This book is a valuable resource.... Linguist List The most valuable characteristic of Academic Writing and Genre is that it provides a rich and detailed discussion on the need for the inclusion of both social and cognitive genres. - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

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Ian Bruce is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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