Analysing academic writing : contextualized frameworks / edited by Louise J. Ravelli and Robert A. Ellis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ravelli, Louise.

Ellis, Robert A.

Series:

Open linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Evaluation.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers--Evaluation.

Report writing--Evaluation.

Report writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 279 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Analyzing academic writing

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"The balance struck in this volume between discussion of theory and reports on and suggestions for practice make it an invaluable collection for all those engaged in researching and teaching academic writing. Most of the contributions present work influenced by systemic functional linguistics, but the collection will also be of interest to those adopting alternative approaches.' Martin Hewings, Senior Lecturer, English Department, University of Birmingham and Co-Editor, English for Specific Purposes. This book presents international research by renowned linguists and second language experts across different languages on issues surrounding Academic Writing. Academic Writing is an important skill for students entering tertiary education to learn. Each discipline has its own rules and formulae of acceptable academic and pedagogic discourse, and the essays collected in this volume analyze how these vary according to subject. Using a primarily Systemic Functional Linguistic approach, the contributors foreground the relations between academic writing and the social, cultural and educational context in which such written discourse is undertaken. This volume covers the writing not only native speakers of the language in which they are being taught, but also that of those to whom the language of pedagogy is secondary. Academic Writing uses case studies drawn from EFL students, the affect of the International English Language Testing System on academic writing, the role of technology in pedagogic discourse, writing within specific disciplines and across different subjects, the problems of constructing an evaluative stance in academic writing, and technical writing in a second language."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

2 Patterns of engagement: dialogic features and L2 undergraduate writing / Ken Hyland 5

3 Managing attitude in undergraduate academic writing: a focus on the introductions to research reports / Susan Hood 24

4 Scholar or consultant? Author-roles of student writers in German business writing / Helmut Gruber 45

5 Word power: negotiating success in a first-year sociology essay / Sue Starfield 66

6 The exegesis as a genre: an ethnographic examination / Brian Paltridge 84

7 Signalling the organization of written texts: hyper-Themes in management and history essays / Louise J. Ravelli 104

8 Developing discipline-specific writing: an analysis of undergraduate geography essays / Ann Hewings 131

9 IELTS as preparation for tertiary writing: distinctive interpersonal and textual strategies / Caroline Coffin, Ann Hewings 153

10 Technical writing in a second language: the role of grammatical metaphor / Mary J. Schleppegrell 172

11 Problems with the metaphorical reconstrual of meaning in Chinese EFL learners' expositions / Youping Chen, Joseph A. Foley 190

12 Supporting genre-based literacy pedagogy with technology - the implications for the framing and classification of the pedagogy / Robert A. Ellis 210

13 Teaching academic writing on screen: a search for best practice / Helen Drury 233

14 Learning to write in the disciplines: the application of systemic functional linguistic theory to the teaching and research of student writing / Janet Jones 254.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9781474211741

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Restricted for use by site license.