Academic writing in context [[electronic resource] ] : implications and applications / / edited by Martin Hewings

• Pubblicazione: London, : Continuum, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.042
• Soggetto topico: English language - Rhetoric; Academic writing
• Altri autori: HewingsMartin
• Note generali: Previous ed.: published as by Martin Hewings. 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Publications by Tony Dudley-Evans; Distanced and refined selves: educational tensions in writing with the power of knowledge; The future is with us: preparing diverse students for the challenges of university texts and cultures; Descriptions or explanations? Some methodological issues in Contrastive Rhetoric; From evidence to conclusion: the case of 'indicate that'; 'In my opinion': the place of personal views in undergraduate essays; Analysing genre: some conceptual issues; Abstracting from abstracts ; Short answers in first-year undergraduate science writing. What kind of genres are they?Introductory textbooks and disciplinary acculturation: a case study from social anthropology; Cyberdiscourse, evolving notions of authorship, and the teaching of writing; Exemplification strategy in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations; Active verbs with inanimate subjects in scientific research articles; There'll be some changes made: predicting future events in academic and business genres; Anticipatory 'it' in academic writing: an indicator of disciplinary difference and developing disciplinary knowledge ; Reflections on collaborative practice in EAP materials productionReferences; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. Th
• Titolo autorizzato: Academic writing in context
• ISBN: 1-281-29478-0; 9786611294786; 1-4411-6350-6; 1-84714-211-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784969903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II