Discipline-Specific Writing

<p><em>Discipline-Specific Writing</em> 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, <i>Discipline-Specific Writing:</i></p><ul> <li>Explores teaching strategies in a variety of specific areas including science and technology, social science and business;</li> <li>Discusses curriculum development, course design and assessment, providing a framework for the reader;</li> <li>Analyses the teaching of language features including grammar and vocabulary for academic writing;</li> <li>Demonstrates the use of genre analysis, annotated bibliographies and corpora as tools for teaching;</li> <li>Provides practical suggestions for use in the classroom, questions for discussion and additional activities with each chapter.</li> </ul><p>Discipline-Specific Writing is key reading for students taking courses in English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, TESOL, TEFL and CELTA.</p> <p>1. Introduction<br>2. Investigating local sociocultural and institutional contexts for discipline-specific writing<br>3. Developing writing courses for specific academic purposes<br>4. The role of grammar in the discipline-specific writing curriculum<br>5. Approaches and perspectives on teaching vocabulary for discipline-specific academic writing<br>6. Using genre analysis to teach writing in the disciplines<br>7. Teaching writing for science and technology<br>8. Using annotated bibliographies to develop student writing in social sciences<br>9. Discipline-specific writing for business students: research, practice and pedagogy<br>10. Teaching English for Research Publication Purposes with a focus on genre, register, textual mentors and language re-use: a case study<br>11. Introducing corpora and corpus tools into the technical writing classroom through Data-Driven Learning (DDL)<br>12. Critical literacy writing in ESP: perspectives and approaches<br>13. Towards a specific writing language assessment at Hong Kong universities</p>