Academic Writing and Genre

A Systematic Analysis

• Author(s): Ian Bruce,
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Pages: 202
• ISBN_10: 1441136479
  ISBN_13: 9781441136473
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... 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.