How does academic writing vary between educational settings, disciplines, and cultures? How do different approaches to knowledge affect academic writing? 
Teaching Academic Writing combines research and practice to explore the questions that instructors may have about academic writing in the second language classroom. Whether for writing teachers new to the second language classroom or ESL teachers new to academic writing instruction, this textbook provides an accessible and detailed survey of the key issues and ideas that shape the teaching of academic writing to ESL students today. 
Chapters address a full range of critical topics, including the context and process of academic writing, needs analysis, teaching approaches, the interrelationship between writing and vocabulary, intercultural perspectives, feedback, and assessment. Each chapter includes Classroom Implications, tasks and techniques for teaching, and some possible exercises to use with students. Chapters begin with thought-provoking questions and end with a section designed to help users consider their own beliefs and classroom practices. This textbook also includes suggestions for practical resources that can be used in the academic writing classroom.

Teaching Academic Writing: An Introduction for Teachers of Second Language Writers (Michigan Teacher Training (Paperback))

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Paltridge, Brian Richard

Woodrow, Lindy

Harbon, Lesley

Phakiti, Aek

Shen, Huizhong

Stevenson, Marie

Hirsh, David

English as a Second Language

University of Michigan Press/ELT

The pressure on graduate students and new PhDs to publish their work continues to grow with writing and publishing considered an important measure of career success within the academy There is however more to the process of getting published than those who are new to the process initially realize The aim of this guide is to clarify the process and offer advice Getting Published in Academic Journals is written for graduate students and newly graduated PhDs who want to publish their research in peer reviewed academic journals Getting Published in Academic Journals draws on the experiences of the authors as editors of peer reviewed journals as teachers of writing for publication courses and workshops as researchers of the scholarly publication process as reviewers of hundreds of articles and as published authors The book is written to be used in courses and workshops on publishing as a supplement to the books in the revised and updated English in Today s Research World Swales Feak series and as a stand alone guide for academic writers working independently Book jacket

Getting Published in Academic Journals: Navigating the Publication Process

Starfield, Sue

What is genre?How can genre be used as an organizing principle in ESL programs?How are genre and context explored in ESL classes?How can discourse structures be taught through genre?How can genre-based assessment tasks be incorporated into the language classroom?These questions are addressed and answered in Genre in the Language Learning Classroom. This text introduces teachers and teachers-in-training to the concept of genre analysis and suggests ways in which the results of genre analysis can be applied to language learning classrooms. It provides genre-oriented activities that will help teachers extend and diversify their everyday language teaching practice. These activities focus on the relationship between genre and context, genre and discourse, and genre and language. Examples of genre-based course design and genre-based assessment are offered. The final chapter considers future directions for research and development in the area of genre-based language teaching.

Genre and the Language Learning Classroom (Michigan Teacher Training (Paperback))

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