Description
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. With chapters from practitioners and researchers working across a wide range of contexts around the world, Discipline-Specific Writing:
- Explores teaching strategies in a variety of specific areas including science and technology, social science and business;
- Discusses curriculum development, course design and assessment, providing a framework for the reader;
- Analyses the teaching of language features including grammar and vocabulary for academic writing;
- Demonstrates the use of genre analysis, annotated bibliographies and corpora as tools for teaching;
- Provides practical suggestions for use in the classroom, questions for discussion and additional activities with each chapter.
Discipline-Specific Writing is key reading for students taking courses in English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, TESOL, TEFL and CELTA.
Table of 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
