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
Edited by:
C. N. Candlin,
Ken Hyland
Imprint: Longman
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 138mm,
Width: 213mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 375g
ISBN: 9780582317505
ISBN 10: 0582317509
Series: Applied Linguistics and Language Study
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 18 March 1999
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Christopher N. Candlin, Ken Hyland
