28.5175, Books: Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing: McGee

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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:05:04
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing: McGee

 


Title: Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing 
Series Title: Frameworks for Writing  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/understanding-the-paragraph-and-paragraphing-iain-mcgee/ 


Author: Iain McGee

Electronic: ISBN:  9781781795897 Pages: 438 Price: U.S. $ 75
Hardback: ISBN:  9781781792872 Pages: 438 Price: U.S. $ 75


Abstract:

'Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing' is a work of wide-ranging and
in-depth scholarship on the nature of the paragraph and the factors involved
in making paragraphing decisions when constructing written text. Its
comprehensive scope includes discussion on the origin of the paragraph and its
nature as explored in centuries past and in recent work in discourse analysis
and corpus linguistics, with implications drawn for pedagogy and future
research. McGee profiles the work of key figures who helped to set traditional
notions of the paragraph, and then turns to recent and contemporary empirical
research and theorizing, including his own, on paragraph structure and on
writing process activity related to paragraphing decisions.

The extensive review and close analysis of sources, combined with the author’s
knowledge of research traditions and methodologies, provides a strong
foundation for McGee’s probing study of the paragraph and the resulting
enlightened understandings of it that the book provides. Given that what the
general public and indeed most teachers know about paragraphs and paragraphing
does not represent actual paragraph structure or paragraphing practice, the
pedagogical guidance which the author provides based on a thorough review of
existing research makes this an especially useful book.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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