| Description |
xiv, 217 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
| ISBN |
9781138907430 hardback |
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9781138907447 paperback |
| Note |
"This edited collection draws from the Summer Institute for Creative and Discovery-based Approaches to Teaching University English for Specific Disciplines that was held by the department of English, at City University of Hong Kong in 2014." --Introduction. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / John Flowerdew and Tracey Costley -- Investigating local sociocultural and institutional contexts for discipline-specific writing / Richard W. Forest and Tracy S. Davis -- Developing writing courses for specific academic purposes / Helen Basturkmen -- The role of grammar in the discipline-specific writing curriculum / Jack Richards and Lindsay Miller -- Approaches and perspectives on teaching vocabulary for discipline-specific academic writing / Averil Coxhead -- Using genre analysis to teach writing in the disciplines / Sunny Hyon -- Teaching writing for science and technology / Jean Parkinson -- Using annotated bibliographies to develop student writing in social sciences / Damian Fitzpatrick and Tracey Costley -- Discipline-specific writing for business students: research, practice and pedagogy / Julio Gimenez -- Teaching English for Research Publication Purposes with a focus on genre, register, textual mentors and language re-use: a case study / John Flowerdew and Simon Ho Wang -- Introducing corpora and corpus tools into the technical writing classroom through Data-Driven Learning (DDL)/Laurence Anthony -- Critical literacy writing in ESP: perspectives and approaches / Christian w. Chun -- towards a specific writing language assessment at hong kong universities / Jane Lockwood. |
| Summary |
"Discipline-Specific Writing provides an introduction and guide to the teaching of this topic for students and trainee teachers. This book highlights the importance of discipline-specific writing as a critical area of competence for students, and covers both the theory and practice of teaching this crucial topic. Discipline-Specific Writing is key reading for students taking courses in English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, TESOL, TEFL and CELTA." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Library Class |
Education G241
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| Subject |
Language arts (Higher) -- Correlation with content subjects.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Interdisciplinary approach in education.
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Language and education.
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| Other Author |
Flowerdew, John, editor.
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Costley, Tracey, editor.
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