Academic Writing in Context Implications and

This 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 particul

Contributors

7

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Acknowledgements

8

(1)

Introduction

9

(8)

Martin Hewings

Publications

17

(6)

Tony Dudley-Evans

17

(6)

Distanced and refined selves: educational tensions in writing with the power of knowledge

23

(7)

Charles Bazerman

The future is with us: preparing diverse students for the challenges of university texts and cultures

30

(13)

Ann M. Johns

Descriptions or explanations? Some methodological issues in Contrastive Rhetoric

43

(12)

Anna Mauranen

From evidence to conclusion: the case of 'indicate that'

55

(8)

Tim Johns

'In my opinion': the place of personal views in undergraduate essays

63

(16)

Greg Myers

Analysing genre: some conceptual issues

79

(14)

Vijay K. Bhatia

Abstracting from abstracts

93

(11)

Thomas Huckin

Short answers in first-year undergraduate science writing. What kind of genres are they?

104

(18)

Helen Drury

Introductory textbooks and disciplinary acculturation: a case study from social anthropology

122

(18)

Alison Love

Cyberdiscourse, evolving notions of authorship, and the teaching of writing

140

(10)

Diane Belcher

Exemplification strategy in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

150

(19)

Willie Henderson

Active verbs with inanimate subjects in scientific research articles

169

(13)

Peter Master

There'll be some changes made: predicting future events in academic and business genres

182

(17)

Meriel Bloor and Thomas Bloor

Anticipatory 'it' in academic writing: an indicator of disciplinary difference and developing disciplinary knowledge

199

(16)

Ann Hewings and Martin Hewings

Reflections on collaborative practice in EAP materials production

215

(12)

John M. Sivales and Christine B. Feak

References

227

(18)

Index

245

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