What is Good Academic Writing?: Insights into Discipline-Specific Student Writing (New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes)

Whong, Melinda

ISBN 10: 1350235040 / ISBN 13: 9781350235045

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What is Good Academic Writing?: Insights into Discipline-Specific Student Writing (New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350235040
• ISBN 13: 9781350235045
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is published open access. The field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) developed to address the needs of students whose mother tongue is not English. However, the linguistic competence required to achieve academic success at any university where English is the medium of instruction is a challenge for all students. While there are linguistic features common to academic literacy as a general genre, closer investigation reveals significant differences from one academic field to another. This volume asks what good writing is within specific disciplines, focussing on student work. Each chapter provides key insights by EAP professionals, based on their research in which they bring together analysis of student writing and interviews with subject specialists and markers who determine what 'good writing' is in their discipline.
The volume includes chapters on established disciplines which have had less attention in the EAP and academic writing literature to date, including music, formal linguistics, and dentistry, as well as new and growing fields of study such as new media.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

About the Authors

Melinda Whong is Associate Professor of Language Education, and Director of the Center for Language Education at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

Alex Ding is Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes and Director of Scholarship at the University of Leeds, UK.

Jeanne Godfrey lectures at the University of Leeds UK. She has been Chair of the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes and set up one of the first academic writing centres in a UK university.

Ian Bruce is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.