Developing and assessing academic and professional writing skills / Susanne Göpferich, Imke Neumann (eds.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Göpferich, Susanne., Editor.

Contributor:

Göpferich, Susanne, editor.

Neumann, Imke, editor.

Series:

Forum Angewandte Linguistik ; Band 56.

Forum Angewandte Linguistik, 0937-406X ; Band 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic writing--Study and teaching.

Academic writing.

Academic writing--Evaluation.

Academic writing--Ability testing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2016

Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : Peter Lang GmbH, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Academic literacy used to be considered a complex set of skills that develop automatically as a by-product of academic socialization. Since the Bologna Reform with its shorter degree programmes, however, it has been realized that these skills need to be fostered actively. Simultaneously, writing skills development at all levels of education has been faced with the challenge of increasingly multilingual and multicultural groups of pupils and students. This book addresses the questions of how both academic and professional writing skills can be fostered under these conditions and how the development of writing skills can be measured.

Contents:

Pt. I Vocabulary and terminology in academic writing

Writing for specific purposes: Developing business students' ability to `technicalize' / Christine S. Sing

Coverage and development of academic vocabulary in assessment texts in English Medium Instruction / Magnus Gustafsson

pt. II Complex writing competence constructs

Assessing writing in vocational education and training schools: Results from an intervention study / Otto Kruse

Writing competence profiles as an assessment grid?

Students' L1 and L2 writing competences and their development after one semester of instruction / Imke Neumann

pt. III Subjective conceptions of writing and how to foster it

Portfolios as a means of developing and assessing writing skills / Sandra Ballweg

"Prepare an outline first and then just write spontaneously"

An analysis of students' writing strategies and their attitudes towards professional writing / Melanie Steindl.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-653-06614-X

OCLC:

946704453

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access