Genres across the Disciplines

Genres across the Disciplines presents cutting edge corpus-based research into student writing in higher education. Genres across the Disciplines is essential reading for those involved in syllabus and materials design for the development of writing in higher education as well as for those investigating EAP. The book explores creativity and the use of metaphor as students work towards becoming experts in the genres of their discipline. Grounded in the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus the text is rich with authentic examples of assignment tasks macrostructures concordances and keywords. Also available separately as a hardback.