Academic Writing in Context

Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Martin Hewings; Publications by Tony Dudley-Evans; 2. Distanced and refined selves: educational tensions in writing with the power of knowledge; Charles Bazerman; 3. The future is with us: preparing diverse students for the challenges of university texts and cultures; Ann M. Johns; 4. Descriptions or explanations? Some methodological issues in Contrastive Rhetoric; Anna Mauranen; 5. From evidence to conclusion: the case of 'indicate that'; Tim Johns; 6. 'In my opinion': the place of personal views in undergraduate essays; Greg Myers; 7. Analysing genre: some conceptual issues; Vijay K. Bhatia; 8. Abstracting from abstracts; Thomas Huckin; 9. Short answers in first-year science writing. What kind of genres are they?; Helen Drury; 10. Introductory textbooks and disiplinary acculturation: a case study from social anthropology; Alison Love; 11. Cyberdiscourse, evolving notions of authorship, and the teaching of writing; Diane Belcher; 12. Exemplification strategy in Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'; Willie Henderson; 13. Active verbs with inanimate subjects in scientific research articles; Peter Master. 14. There'll be some changes made: predicting future events in academic and business genres; Meriel Bloor and Thomas Bloor; 15. Anticipatory 'it' in academic writing: an indicator of disciplinary difference and developing disciplinary knowledge; Ann Hewings and Michael Hewings; 16. Reflections on collaborative practice in EAP materials production; John M. Searle and Christine B. Feak; References; Index.