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About this book
This volume explores a number of themes of current interest to those engaged in researching and teaching academic genres: the social and cultural context of academic writing; differences between the academic and non-academic text; the analysis of particular text types; variation within and across disciplines; and applications of theory in the teaching of writing. The contributors include many of today's most influential scholars in the area of academic literacy, working in a wide variety of tertiary academic contexts in Britain, Finland, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Australia and the United States. The implications will be of relevance to all those engaged in teaching academic writing to both native and non-native English speaking students in tertiary education around the world.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Publications by Tony Dudley-Evans
- Distanced and refined selves: educational tensions in writing with the power of knowledge
- The future is with us: preparing diverse students for the challenges of university texts and cultures
- Descriptions or explanations? Some methodological issues in Contrastive Rhetoric
- From evidence to conclusion: the case of 'indicate that'
- 'In my opinion': the place of personal views in undergraduate essays
- Analysing genre: some conceptual issues
- Abstracting from abstracts
- Short answers in first-year undergraduate science writing. What kind of genres are they?
- Introductory textbooks and disciplinary acculturation: a case study from social anthropology
- Cyberdiscourse, evolving notions of authorship, and the teaching of writing
- Exemplification strategy in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
- Active verbs with inanimate subjects in scientific research articles
- There'll be some changes made: predicting future events in academic and business genres
- Anticipatory 'it' in academic writing: an indicator of disciplinary difference and developing disciplinary knowledge
- Reflections on collaborative practice in EAP materials production
- References
- Index
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