Academic Writing and Genre: A Systematic Analysis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780826498441)

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.

Author: Ian Bruce
ISBN-10: 0826498442
ISBN-13: 9780826498441
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2008
Pages: 202
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 297