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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456952503321

Autore

Bruce Ian <1953->

Titolo

Academic writing and genre : a systematic analysis / Ian Bruce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2008

ISBN

1-4742-1171-2

1-282-45224-X

9786612452246

1-4411-3647-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

808.066

Soggetti

Literary form - Study and teaching (Higher)

Academic writing - Study and teaching (Higher)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-184) and index

Nota di contenuto

1. Genre constructs and the teaching of writing -- 2. The two main pedagogical approaches to genre: a review -- 3. Cognitive discourse categories -- 4. Operationalising cognitive genres -- 5. Cognitive genres and EAP writing courses -- 6. The scope of social genre knowledge -- 7. Teaching a higher level research genre -- Bibliography -- Index --

Sommario/riassunto

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.