Academic Writing and Genre A Systematic Analysis [Hardcover]

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.

1. Genre constructs and the teaching of writing
2. The two main pedagogical approaches to genre: a review3. Cognitive discourse categories4. Operationalising cognitive genres5. Cognitive genres and EAP writing courses6. The scope of social genre knowledge7. Teaching a higher level research genre
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