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Zusatztext This is a book for all EAP practitioners with enquiring minds. It informs us about specific disciplinary writing practices, but it also demonstrates how we can keep on exploring these practices for ourselves, in any field where good academic writing takes place. Informationen zum Autor 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. 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. Klappentext 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. Identifies what constitutes ‘good’ student writing across a range of different academic disciplines. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor Foreword Introduction: The Good Writing Project, Melinda Whong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) and Jeanne Godfrey (University of Leeds, UK) 1. A Collaborative Scholarship Model of EAP Research and Practice, Jeanne Godfrey (University of Leeds, UK) and Melinda Whong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) 2. The Written Discourse Genres of Digital Media Studies, Simon Webster (University of Leeds, UK) 3. Exploring Clarity in the Discipline of Design, Clare Maxwel...
