Academic Writing and Genre: A Systematic Analysis

by Ian Bruce

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826498442
• ISBN13: 9780826498441
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"