Discipline-Specific Writing

Theory into practice
Herausgeber: Costley, Tracey; Flowerdew, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discipline-Specific Writing provides an introduction and guide for students and trainee teachers on how to teach this topic. Writing remains a central area of learning, research and teaching at the university but the focus is now on discipline-specific writing as a critical area of study and competence for all students. This book provides comprehensive coverage of this subject including contextual backgrounds, course design, language features, specific disciplinary focusses, genre, corpus-based approaches, critical approaches, and assessment. This book is key reading for students taking courses in English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, TESOL, TEFL and CELTA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9781138907430
• ISBN-10: 113890743X
• Artikelnr.: 57053917

Autorenporträt

John Flowerdew is Professor Emeritus at City University of Hong Kong and is now based in the UK, where he is a Visiting Professor at Lancaster University. Tracey Costley is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Investigating local sociocultural and institutional contexts for
discipline-specific writing
3. Developing writing courses for specific academic purposes
4. The role of grammar in the discipline-specific writing curriculum
5. Approaches and perspectives on teaching vocabulary for
discipline-specific academic writing
6. Using genre analysis to teach writing in the disciplines
7. Teaching writing for science and technology
8. Using annotated bibliographies to develop student writing in social
sciences
9. Discipline-specific writing for business students: research, practice
and pedagogy
10. Teaching English for Research Publication Purposes with a focus on
genre, register, textual mentors and language re-use: a case study
11. Introducing corpora and corpus tools into the technical writing
classroom through Data-Driven Learning (DDL)
12. Critical literacy writing in ESP: perspectives and approaches
13. Towards a specific writing language assessment at Hong Kong
universities