Overview

This volume explores a number of themes of current interest to those engaged in researching and teaching academic genres: the social and cultural context of academic writing; differences between the academic and non-academic text; the analysis of particular text types; variation within and across disciplines; and applications of theory in the teaching of writing. The contributors include many of today's most influential scholars in the area of academic literacy, working in a wide variety of tertiary academic contexts in Britain, Finland, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Australia and the United States. The implications will be of relevance to all those engaged in teaching academic writing to both native and non-native English speaking students in tertiary education around the world.

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Author:   Martin Hewings
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780826481313

ISBN 10:   0826481310
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 June 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction; Marting Hewings 2. Publications by Tony Dudley-Evans 3. Distanced and refined selves: educational tensions in writing with the power of knowledge; Charles Bazerman 4. The future is with us: preparing diverse students for the challenges of university texts and cultures; Ann M. Johns 5. Descriptions or explanations? Some methodological issues in Contrastive Rhetoric; Anna Mauranen 6. From evidence to conclusion: the case of 'indicate that'; Tim Johns 7. 'In my opinion': the place of personal views in undergraduate essays; Greg Myers 8. Analysing genre: some conceptual issues; Vijay K. Bhatia 9. Abstracting from abstracts; Thomas Huckin 10. Short answers in first-year science writing. What kind of genres are they?; Helen Drury 11. Introductory textbooks and disiplinary acculturation: a case study from social anthropology; Alison Love 12. Cyberdiscourse, evolving notions of authorship, and the teaching of writing; Diane Belcher 13. Exemplification strategy in Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'; Willie Henderson 14. Active verbs with inanimate subjects in scientific research articles; Peter Master 15. There'll be some changes made: predicting future events in academic and business genres; Meriel Bloor and Thomas Bloor 16. Anticipatory 'it' in academic writing: an indicator of disciplinary difference and developing disciplinary knowledge; Ann Hewings and Michael Hewings 17. Reflections on collaborative practice in EAP materials production; John M. Searle and Christine B. Feak References Index

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Martin Hewings is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Birmingham. 

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