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Author Bruce, Ian, 1953-

Title Academic writing and genre : a systematic analysis / Ian Bruce
Published London : Continuum, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Literary form -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Form Electronic book
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