What is Good Academic Writing?: Insights into Discipline-Specific Student Writing

✍ Scribed by Melinda Whong; Alex Ding; Ian Bruce

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 209
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: The Good Writing Project Melinda Whong and Jeanne Godfrey
1 A Collaborative Scholarship Model of EAP Research and Practice Jeanne Godfrey and Melinda Whong
2 The Written Discourse Genres of Digital Media Studies Simon Webster
3 Exploring Clarity in the Discipline of Design Clare Maxwell
4 Musicology and Its Others Karen Burland, Edward Venn and Scott McLaughlin
5 Good Academic Reflective Writing in Dentistry Marion Bowman
6 Dissertations in Fine Art Sara Montgomery
7 Good Writing in Linguistics Diane Nelson and Valentina Brunetto
Afterword
Index

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