Student Writing and Genre: Reconfiguring Academic Knowledge

by Fiona English

This book is about how genres affect the ways students understand and engage with their disciplines, offering a fresh approach to genre by using affordances as a key aspect in exploring the work of first year undergraduates who were given the task of reworking an essay by using a different genre. Working within a social semiotic frame of reference, it uses the notion of genre as a clear, articulated tool for discussing the relationship between knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441171614
• ISBN13: 9781441171610
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"