The role of the textbook in EAP writing research  

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Swales, John M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 1 (1995), page 3-18.
Fulltext: 14_01_Swales.pdf (1.21MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/14 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper reviews the potential role of writing textbooks in increasing our understanding of academic writing. It argues that this role is underappreciated for several reasons. These include the dampening effects of existing discoursal and social-constructionist accounts of introductory college textbooks, a reluctance to look beyond the ostensible student audience, and a diffidence in recognizing textbook author motives other than the "commercial" or the "ideological." The paper then discusses a recently completed textbook as a means of showing how a complex set of motives can result in some contribution to research and scholarship. The paper concludes by arguing that textbooks should not be automatically excluded from the set of research-process genres since they may consolidate and apply recent scholarship, incorporate new research findings, and generate interesting new topics worth further study. In effect, advanced textbooks are important hybrid genres.

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