Full Description
This book is published open access. The field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) developed to address the needs of students whose mother tongue is not English. However, the linguistic competence required to achieve academic success at any university where English is the medium of instruction is a challenge for all students. While there are linguistic features common to academic literacy as a general genre, closer investigation reveals significant differences from one academic field to another. This volume asks what good writing is within specific disciplines, focussing on student work. Each chapter provides key insights by EAP professionals, based on their research in which they bring together analysis of student writing and interviews with subject specialists and markers who determine what 'good writing' is in their discipline.
The volume includes chapters on established disciplines which have had less attention in the EAP and academic writing literature to date, including music, formal linguistics, and dentistry, as well as new and growing fields of study such as new media.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Contents
Series Editor Foreword
Introduction: The Good Writing Project, Melinda Whong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) and Jeanne Godfrey (University of Leeds, UK)
1. A Collaborative Scholarship Model of EAP Research and Practice, Jeanne Godfrey (University of Leeds, UK) and Melinda Whong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
2. The Written Discourse Genres of Digital Media Studies, Simon Webster (University of Leeds, UK)
3. Exploring Clarity in the Discipline of Design, Clare Maxwell (University of Leeds, UK)
4. Musicology and Its Others, Karen Burland, Edward Venn and Scott McLaughlin (University of Leeds, UK)
5. Good Academic Reflective Writing in Dentistry, Marion Bowman (University of Leeds, UK)
6. Dissertations in Fine Art, Sara Montgomery (University of Leeds, UK)
7. Good Writing in Linguistics, Diane Nelson and Valentina Brunetto (University of Leeds, UK)
Afterword, Ian Bruce (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
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