Academic Writing in Context: Implications and Applications : Papers in Honour of Tony Dudley-EvansThis volume explores a number of themes of current interest to those engaged in researching and teaching academic genres: the social and cultural context of academic writing; differences between the academic and non-academic text; the analysis of particular text types; variation within and across disciplines; and applications of theory in the teaching of writing. The contributors include many of today's most influential scholars in the area of academic literacy, working in a wide variety of tertiary academic contexts in Britain, Finland, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Australia and the United States. |
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Contributors 7 | 7 |
educational tensions in writing | 23 |
Descriptions or explanations? Some methodological issues | 43 |
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