Discipline-specific writing: theory into practice

Discipline-Specific Writing provides an introduction and guide to the teaching of this topic for students and trainee teachers. This book highlights the importance of discipline-specific writing as a critical area of competence for students, and covers both the theory and practice of teaching this crucial topic. With chapters from practitioners and researchers working across a wide range of contexts around the world, Discipline-Specific Writing: Explores teaching strategies in a variety of specific areas including science and technology, social science and business; Discusses curriculum development, course design and assessment, providing a framework for the reader; Analyses the teaching of language features including grammar and vocabulary for academic writing; Demonstrates the use of genre analysis, annotated bibliographies and corpora as tools for teaching; Provides practical suggestions for use in the classroom, questions for discussion and additional activities with each chapter. Discipline-Specific Writing is key reading for students taking courses in English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, TESOL, TEFL and CELTA.

Introduction / John Flowerdew and Tracey Costley -- Investigating local sociocultural and institutional contexts for discipline-specific writing / Richard W. Forest and Tracy S. Davis -- Developing writing courses for specific academic purposes / Helen Basturkmen -- The role of grammar in the discipline-specific writing curriculum / Jack Richards and Lindsay Miller -- Approaches and perspectives on teaching vocabulary for discipline-specific academic writing / Averil Coxhead -- Using genre analysis to teach writing in the disciplines / Sunny Hyon -- Teaching writing for science and technology / Jean Parkinson -- Using annotated bibliographies to develop student writing in social sciences / Damian Fitzpatrick and Tracey Costley -- Discipline-specific writing for business students: research, practice and pedagogy / Julio Gimenez -- Teaching English for Research Publication Purposes with a focus on genre, register, textual mentors and language re-use: a case study / John Flowerdew and Simon Ho Wang -- Introducing corpora and corpus tools into the technical writing classroom through Data-Driven Learning (DDL)/Laurence Anthony -- Critical literacy writing in ESP: perspectives and appro…