Creating materials for teaching evaluation in academic writing: Using letters to the editor in L2 composition courses  

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Bloch, Joel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 22 no. 4 (2003), page 347-364.
Fulltext: 22_04_Bloch.pdf (189.39KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Academic writing has often been viewed as a monolithic form stripped of all personal value and expression. This view, however, is contradicted by recent research showing that academic writing not only expresses personal viewpoints but also that the focus on the research report, the form of academic writing perhaps most often taught, does not fully account for the complexity of the entire "invisible college" in which academic knowledge is produced. As a supplement to the research report, I propose in this article that an analysis of academic letters provides an insight into the variety of language forms used both formally and informally in academic writing and into the entire process by which knowledge is produced, evaluated, and published. I analyzed a sample of letters to the editor taken from the journal Science, the publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I examined how letters are used to both support and criticize the research published in the journal and how this analysis is useful in the teaching of academic writing. The results demonstrate how scientists can closely link their language and rhetorical purpose as they participate in the ongoing conversation about how scientific claims are presented.

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