Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices
1st Edition
Published on 11. June 2014
344 pages
978-1-317-88274-9 (ISBN)
Description
Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices offers an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to writing in a variety of academic and professional settings. The book is composed of a series of original research-based accounts by leading authorities from a range of disciplines. The papers are linked through a unifying perspective which emphasises the role of cultural and institutional practices in the construction and interpretation of written texts.
This important new book integrates different approaches to text analysis, different perspectives on writing processes, and the different methodologies used to research written texts. Throughout,an explicit link is made between research and practice illustrated with reference to a number of case studies drawn from professional and classroom contexts.
The book will be of considerable interest to those concerned with professional or academic writing and will be of particular value to students and lecturers in applied linguistics, communication studies, discourse analysis, and professional communications training.
The contributors to this volume are:
Robert J. Barrett
Vijay K. Bhatia
Christopher N. Candlin
Yu-Ying Chang
Sandra Gollin
Ken Hyland
Roz Ivanic
Mary R. Lea
Ian G. Malcolm
John Milton
Greg Myers
Guenter A. Plum
Brian Street
John M. Swales
Sue Weldon
Patricia Wright
This important new book integrates different approaches to text analysis, different perspectives on writing processes, and the different methodologies used to research written texts. Throughout,an explicit link is made between research and practice illustrated with reference to a number of case studies drawn from professional and classroom contexts.
The book will be of considerable interest to those concerned with professional or academic writing and will be of particular value to students and lecturers in applied linguistics, communication studies, discourse analysis, and professional communications training.
The contributors to this volume are:
Robert J. Barrett
Vijay K. Bhatia
Christopher N. Candlin
Yu-Ying Chang
Sandra Gollin
Ken Hyland
Roz Ivanic
Mary R. Lea
Ian G. Malcolm
John Milton
Greg Myers
Guenter A. Plum
Brian Street
John M. Swales
Sue Weldon
Patricia Wright
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
5,43 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-88274-9 (9781317882749)
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Persons
Christopher N. Candlin, Ken Hyland
Content
Introduction, Christopher N. Candlin and Ken Hyland
SECTION ONE: EXPRESSION: FOCUS ON TEXT
1. Integrating products, processes, purposes and participants in professional writing, Vijay K. Bhatia
2. Interaction in writing: principles and problems, Greg Myers
3. Writing as academic literacies: understanding textual practices in higher education, Mary R. Lea and Brian Street
SECTION TWO: INTERPRETATION: FOCUS ON PROCESS
4. Writing and information design of healthcare materials, Patricia Wright
5. Disciplinary discourses: writer stance in research articles, Ken Hyland
6. Writing as an intercultural process, Ian G. Malcolm
SECTION THREE: EXPLANATION: FOCUS ON RESEARCH
7. Informal elements in English academic writing: threats or opportunities for advanced non-native speakers?, Yu-Ying Chang and John M. Swales
8. Researching the writer-reader relationship, Roz Ivanic and Sue Weldon
9. Engaging with challenges of interdiscursivity in academic writing: researchers, students and tutors, Christopher N Candlin and Guenter A Plum
SECTION FOUR: REALISATION: FOCUS ON PRAXIS
10. Lexical thickets and electronic gateways: making text accessible by novice writers, John Milton
11. The writing-talking cure: an ethnography of record-speech events in a psychiatric hospital, Robert J. Barrett
12. Why? I thought we'd talked about it before: collaborative writing in a professional workplace setting, Sandra Gollin
SECTION ONE: EXPRESSION: FOCUS ON TEXT
1. Integrating products, processes, purposes and participants in professional writing, Vijay K. Bhatia
2. Interaction in writing: principles and problems, Greg Myers
3. Writing as academic literacies: understanding textual practices in higher education, Mary R. Lea and Brian Street
SECTION TWO: INTERPRETATION: FOCUS ON PROCESS
4. Writing and information design of healthcare materials, Patricia Wright
5. Disciplinary discourses: writer stance in research articles, Ken Hyland
6. Writing as an intercultural process, Ian G. Malcolm
SECTION THREE: EXPLANATION: FOCUS ON RESEARCH
7. Informal elements in English academic writing: threats or opportunities for advanced non-native speakers?, Yu-Ying Chang and John M. Swales
8. Researching the writer-reader relationship, Roz Ivanic and Sue Weldon
9. Engaging with challenges of interdiscursivity in academic writing: researchers, students and tutors, Christopher N Candlin and Guenter A Plum
SECTION FOUR: REALISATION: FOCUS ON PRAXIS
10. Lexical thickets and electronic gateways: making text accessible by novice writers, John Milton
11. The writing-talking cure: an ethnography of record-speech events in a psychiatric hospital, Robert J. Barrett
12. Why? I thought we'd talked about it before: collaborative writing in a professional workplace setting, Sandra Gollin
