Academic Writing and Genre: A Systematic Analysis
Academic Writing and Genre: A Systematic Analysis By Ian Bruce
2008 | 203 Pages | ISBN: 0826498442 | PDF | 11 MB
2008 | 203 Pages | ISBN: 0826498442 | PDF | 11 MB
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.