Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices

ISBN-13: 9780582317505 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 344 str.

Christopher N. Candlin; Ken Hyland

Opis

Offers a multidisciplinary approach to writing in a variety of academic and professional settings, through a collection of research-based accounts by scholars in the field.

Spis treści

Introduction, Christopher N. Candlin and Ken Hyland

SECTION ONE: EXPRESSION: FOCUS ON TEXT
1. Integrating products, processes, purposes and participants in professional writing, Vijay K. Bhatia
2. Interaction in writing: principles and problems, Greg Myers
3. Writing as academic literacies: understanding textual practices in higher education, Mary R. Lea and Brian Street

SECTION TWO: INTERPRETATION: FOCUS ON PROCESS
4. Writing and information design of healthcare materials, Patricia Wright
5. Disciplinary discourses: writer stance in research articles, Ken Hyland
6. Writing as an intercultural process, Ian G. Malcolm

SECTION THREE: EXPLANATION: FOCUS ON RESEARCH
7. Informal elements in English academic writing: threats or opportunities for advanced non-native speakers?, Yu-Ying Chang and John M. Swales
8. Researching the writer-reader relationship, Roz Ivanic and Sue Weldon
9. Engaging with challenges of interdiscursivity in academic writing: researchers, students and tutors, Christopher N Candlin and Guenter A Plum

SECTION FOUR: REALISATION: FOCUS ON PRAXIS
10. Lexical thickets and electronic gateways: making text accessible by novice writers, John Milton
11. The writing-talking cure: an ethnography of record-speech events in a psychiatric hospital, Robert J. Barrett
12. Why? I thought we'd talked about it before: collaborative writing in a professional workplace setting, Sandra Gollin

O autorze

Christopher N. Candlin, Ken Hyland