23.5349, Books: Student Writing and Genre: English
linguist at linguistlist.org
linguist at linguistlist.org
Wed Dec 19 13:45:24 UTC 2012
LINGUIST List: Vol-23-5349. Wed Dec 19 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 23.5349, Books: Student Writing and Genre: English
Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin Madison
Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin Madison
Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin Madison
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin Madison
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin Madison
<reviews at linguistlist.org>
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org
Do you want to donate to LINGUIST without spending an extra penny? Bookmark
the Amazon link for your country below; then use it whenever you buy from
Amazon!
USA: http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-20
Britain: http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-21
Germany: http://www.amazon.de/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistd-21
Japan: http://www.amazon.co.jp/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-22
Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistc-20
France: http://www.amazon.fr/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistf-21
For more information on the LINGUIST Amazon store please visit our
FAQ at http://linguistlist.org/amazon-faq.cfm.
Editor for this issue: Rebekah McClure <rebekah at linguistlist.org>
================================================================
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:45:09
From: Ellena Moriarty [Ellena.moriarty at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Student Writing and Genre: English
E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-5349.html&submissionid=5861082&topicid=2&msgnumber=1
Title: Student Writing and Genre
Subtitle: Reconfiguring Academic Knowledge
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Linguistics (formerly Continuum Linguistics)
http://www.continuumbooks.com
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/student-writing-and-genre-9781441124708/
Author: Fiona English
Paperback: ISBN: 1441124705 9781441124708 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
This book is about how genres affect the ways students understand and engage
with their disciplines, offering a fresh approach to genre by using
affordances as a key aspect in exploring the work of first year undergraduates
who were given the task of reworking an essay by using a different genre.
Working within a social semiotic frame of reference, it uses the notion of
genre as a clear, articulated tool for discussing the relationship between
knowledge and representation. It provides pedagogical solutions to contentions
around ‘genres’, ‘disciplines’, ‘academic discourses’ and their relation to
student learning, identity and power, showing that, given the opportunity to
work with different genres, students develop new ways of understanding and
engaging with their disciplines.
Providing a strong argument for why a wider repertoire of genres is desirable
at university, this study opens up new possibilities for student writing,
learning and assessment. It will appeal to teachers, subject specialists,
researchers and postgraduates interested in higher education studies, academic
literacies, writing in the disciplines and applied linguistics.
'Fiona English has written a book that is path-breaking, theoretically and
practically. Authoritative and solidly based on the achievements of work in
academic literacies, she treats genre as a flexible instrument for the shaping
and re-shaping of writing and knowledge in the disciplines. The approach will
have far-reaching, transformative effects both on the potentials of students'
engagement with disciplinary knowledge and writing, as much as on practices of
teaching in the different disciplines.' - Gunther Kress, University of London,
UK.
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Written In: English (eng)
See this book announcement on our website:
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=63677
MAJOR SUPPORTERS
Brill
http://www.brill.nl
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.c-s-p.org
Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Cascadilla Press
http://www.cascadilla.com/
Bloomsbury Publishing
(formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.continuumbooks.com
De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Edinburgh University Press
http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/
Elsevier Ltd
http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
European Language Resources Association - ELRA
http://www.elra.info.
Georgetown University Press
http://www.press.georgetown.edu
Hodder Education
http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk
John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom.eu
MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
http://www.narr.de/
Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Rodopi
http://www.rodopi.nl/
Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Springer
http://www.springer.com
University of Toronto Press
http://www.utpjournals.com/
Wiley-Blackwell
http://www.wiley.com
OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm
International Pragmatics Assoc.
http://www.ipra.be
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
http://www.lotpublications.nl/
SIL International
http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp
University of Nebraska Press
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/catalog/CategoryInfo.aspx?cid=152
Utrecht institute of Linguistics
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/
----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-23-5349
----------------------------------------------------------
More information about the LINGUIST
mailing list