TY - BOOK AU - Bruce,Ian TI - Academic writing and genre: a systematic analysis SN - 9781441136473 (electronic bk.) AV - PN45.5 .B76 2008 U1 - 808.066 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Continuum KW - Literary form KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - Academic writing KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Rhetoric KW - bisacsh KW - REFERENCE KW - Writing Skills KW - Composition & Creative Writing KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The teaching of academic writing; Chapter 2: From social genre towards pedagogy; Chapter 3: Constraints on a cognitive genre construct; Chapter 4: Operationalizing cognitive genres in academic writing; Chapter 5: Relating cognitive genres to the teaching and learning of writing; Chapter 6: The scope of social genre knowledge; Chapter 7: Teaching genre knowledge in an advanced writing course; References; Appendix 1 Crombies interpropositional relations; Appendix 2 Corpus study: selection method, population and sample N2 - The focus of this book is the use of genre-based approaches to teaching academic writing. Genre-based courses enable second language learners to integrate their linguistic, organisational and contextual knowledge in a variety of different tasks. The book reviews pedagogical approaches to genre through English for Specific Purposes and Systemic Functional Linguistics to present a synthesis of the current research being undertaken in the field. From this theoretical base, Ian Bruce proposes a new model of genre-based approaches to academic writing, and analyses the ways in which this can be impl UR - http://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&an=306601 ER -