Discipline-Specific Writing
Theory into practice
Paperback Engels 2016 9781138907447Samenvatting
Discipline-Specific Writing provides an introduction and guide to the teaching of this topic for students and trainee teachers. This book highlights the importance of discipline-specific writing as a critical area of competence for students, and covers both the theory and practice of teaching this crucial topic. With chapters from practitioners and researchers working across a wide range of contexts around the world, Discipline-Specific Writing:Explores teaching strategies in a variety of specific areas including science and technology, social science and business;Discusses curriculum development, course design and assessment, providing a framework for the reader;Analyses the teaching of language features including grammar and vocabulary for academic writing;Demonstrates the use of genre analysis, annotated bibliographies and corpora as tools for teaching;Provides practical suggestions for use in the classroom, questions for discussion and additional activities with each chapter.
Discipline-Specific Writing is key reading for students taking courses in English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, TESOL, TEFL and CELTA.
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Inhoudsopgave
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
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