The genre(s) of student writing: developing writing models  

Oleh:

Huttner, Julia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 2 (2008), page 146-165.
Topik: EAP; ESP; genre analysis; student writing; English in Europe
Fulltext: Volume 18, issue 2 (July 2008), p. 146-165.pdf (314.85KB)

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This paper addresses the need to re-evaluate the aims and objectives underlying the teaching of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in a European context. I argue here that for students to develop fully their abilities as writers, the objectives set in individual classes must reflect students’ communicative purposes, rather than those of expert writers, and for that reason specific student writing models are needed. This paper proposes a methodology for the development of such writing models, and presents results of the application of this methodology to the analysis of a corpus of 55 student paper conclusions. The notion of student genre(s) adopted here challenges the tacit assumption that EAP is a homogeneous whole, and that expert models can realistically be used as models in teaching EAP student writing.

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