Discipline-Specific Writing

John Flowerdew is Professor Emeritus at City University of Hong Kong and is now based in the UK, where he is a Visiting Professor at Lancaster University. Tracey Costley is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

• 1. Introduction2. Investigating local sociocultural and institutional contexts for discipline-specific writing3. Developing writing courses for specific academic purposes4. The role of grammar in the discipline-specific writing curriculum5. Approaches and perspectives on teaching vocabulary for discipline-specific academic writing6. Using genre analysis to teach writing in the disciplines7. Teaching writing for science and technology8. Using annotated bibliographies to develop student writing in social sciences9. Discipline-specific writing for business students: research, practice and pedagogy10. Teaching English for Research Publication Purposes with a focus on genre, register, textual mentors and language re-use: a case study11. Introducing corpora and corpus tools into the technical writing classroom through Data-Driven Learning (DDL)12. Critical literacy writing in ESP: perspectives and approaches13. Towards a specific writing language assessment at Hong Kong universities

"Flowerdew and Costley have brought together an outstanding group of authors for this volume. The chapters bring together theory and practice in a way that is both highly readable as well as extremely useful for teachers of discipline-specific writing. An excellent publication."Brian Paltridge, University of Sydney, Australia "This book demonstrates the value of research-informed teaching. Research on disciplinary writing is extended into practical considerations for the teacher in the classroom. The multiple research perspectives, teaching strategies and pedagogic considerations raised in this book will make it an enormously useful resource for researchers and teachers."Suganthi John, University of Birmingham, UK