Research on writing has been classified according to its focus on four distinct yet interrelated aspects of writing: the written texts themselves, the form of written products, the composing process, and the method that people interact with their sociocultural contexts when writing (Cumming, 1998). The following are descriptions of these four research emphases. Focus on the written texts: One group of studies focuses on the texts that writers produce, for example, contrastive rhetorical analyses
language item can be formulated and combined in a variety of different ways. This concept is applied at all levels of language may it be literature, linguistics, syntax and so on and stylisticians are responsible for analyzing this unique style of writing across that text. Generally speaking, researchers may regard style as a choice from the general pool of language available which deviates deliberately or unconsciously from the normal or classical usage of language. Stylisticians allow language users
INTERODUCTION : Academic writing plays an essential role in learning a foreign language. Non-native speakers of the English language should be familiar with writing processes, elements, and features like formality, objectivity, and complexity in order to use the language precisely and accurately. Due to the great value of writing skill, a considerable number of researchers have demonstrated various views regarding how to teach academic writing. For instance, there has been an argument over
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traditional intellectual approach to education, can be used to further one’s academic knowledge. Gerald Graff supports this when he discusses the flawed line between “academic” subjects and “non academic” subjects. In his essay, “Hidden Intellectualism”, he remarks, “We associate the educated life, the life of the mind, too narrowly and exclusively with subjects and texts that we consider inherently weighty and academic” (Graff 380). In other words, we are wrong to affiliate so strongly that which
1.2. Introduction Writing is seen as an important skill in high levels of education and numerous students attempt to be identified as the members of the group of competent writers in academic settings (Cortes, 2004; Hyland 2008a, 2008b). Academic writing such as any other type of writing can only be useful when writers apply conventions which other members of their field of study find convincing and familiar (Hyland, 2009). Wells (1992) argues that “each subject discipline constitutes a way of making
the genre based approach to teaching writing, because of the dissatisfaction arisen from the use of the previous approach. A genre is defined by Swale (1990:58) as “a class of communicative events, the members of which share some set of communicative purposes”. This definition implies that there are certain conventions or rules that are related to a writer’s purpose. In other words, the mainstay of any situation is the purpose, that is, different types of writing or genres are used to carry out various
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in almost every country. In Iran English is taught as a foreign language in high-schools as well as in universities (Mirdehghan, HoseiniKargar, Navab, & Mahmoodi, 2011). Aside from different language courses presented in different levels of public academic centers, there are also private institutes that teach different levels of foreign language. As a branch of English language teaching, English for specific purposes (ESP) has gained much attention during recent years (Johns, 2013; Sarem, Hamidi, &
What is genre approach to writing? The foundation of a genre approach is on “systemic functional linguistics (SFL)”, a language theory which was developed by Halliday (Fekins, Forey, Sengupta, 2007). The SFL theory of language is based on functional notion of language (Hyland, 2003). Systemic functional linguistics focuses on syntactic structure of language and language function is always encouraged. The foundation of a genre approach is the “learning through guidance and interaction” (Painter