Academic Writing And Genre: Systematic Analysis, A

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. Table of Contents: 1. Genre constructs and the teaching of writing; 2. The two main pedagogical approaches to genre: a review; 3. Cognitive discourse categories; 4. Operationalising cognitive genres; 5. Cognitive genres and EAP writing courses; 6. The scope of social genre knowledge; 7. Teaching a higher level research genre. Author Biography: Ian Bruce is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.