Genre and Graduate-Level Research Writing (The Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers)
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Summary
In the context of the well-known pedagogical materials for graduate-level writers by Swales Feak An Cheng has written a resource that provides support for instructors who have the daunting task of scaffolding graduate writers … efforts to navigate discipline-specific research genres--genres that may be unfamiliar to instructors themselves Genre and Graduate-Level Research Writing is grounded in genre-based theory and full of best practices examples The book opens by presenting the case for the use of genre in graduate-level research writing and by examining rhetorical consciousness-raising and its ties to genre Unique to the volume is a thorough analysis of the materials designed to teach genre and research writing focused on the textbooks of Swales Feak e g Academic Writing for Graduate Students and similar texts Other chapters provide examples of discovery-based genre tasks evaluative methods for assessing discipline-specific writing and techniques for becoming a more confident instructor of graduate-level research writing