Hilary Nesi, Sheena Gardner, Carol A. Chapelle

Genres across the Disciplines

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Genres across the Disciplines presents cutting edge, corpus-based research into student writing in higher education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780521149594
• ISBN-10: 0521149592
• Artikelnr.: 34541651

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Overview: 1. The role of student writing in university degree
programmes (prior research, importance, approach to study); 2. Families of
genres of assessed writing (including tables indicating distribution of
genre families and genres across disciplines and years of study); Part II.
Functions of University Student Writing: 3. Understanding and explaining
(explanations, exercise); 4. Developing arguments (critiques, essays); 5.
Preparing for professional practice (case studies, problem questions,
design specifications, proposals); 6. Developing research skills
(literature surveys, methodology recounts, research reports); Part III.
University Student Writing and Personal Development: 7. The role of
reflection; 8. Creativity and contextual metaphor ((narrative recounts and
empathy writing); Conclusion: tradition and innovation in university
student writing; References; Index (including references to the disciplines
represented in the BAWE corpus).