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Academic Writing In A Second Language »

Authors: Diane Belcher, George Braine, Diane Dewhurst Belcher
ISBN-13: 9781567501155, ISBN-10: 156750115X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.

	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect: The Case of a Graduate ESL Student	3
2	Good Writing: I Know It When I See It	23
3	Redefining the Task: An Ethnographic Examination of Writing and Response in Graduate Seminars	47
4	Local Interactions: Constructing Contexts for Composing in a Graduate Sociology Program	83
5	Writing in the Natural Sciences and Engineering	113
6	Writing Critically Across the Curriculum	135
7	Writing from Sources: Case Studies of Graduate Students in Business Management	155
8	Consciousness Raising and Article Pedagogy	183
9	Holistic Scoring in ESL Writing Assessment: What Does an Analysis of Rhetorical Features Reveal?	205
10	A Comparison of the Use of Citations in Chinese and English Academic Discourse	231
11	Teaching Classroom and Authentic Genres: Initiating Students into Academic Cultures and Discourses	277
12	Common-Core and Specific Approaches to the Teaching of Academic Writing	293
13	The ESL Technical Expert: Writing Processes and Classroom Practices	313
14	Negotiating the Syllabus: A Learning-Centered, Interactive Approach to ESL Graduate Writing Course Design	331
15	A Genre-Based Developmental Writing Course for Undergraduate ESL Science Majors	351
16	Fostering Writing Expertise in ESL Composition Instruction: Modeling and Evaluation	375
	Author Index	399
	Subject Index	407