What Is Good Academic Writing? Insights into Discipline-Specific Student Writing

• Main Authors: Whong, Melinda, Godfrey, Jeanne
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2020; Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury Publishing
• Edition: 1
• Series: New Perspectives for English for Academic Purposes
• Subjects: Academic writing; Education; Educational purpose qualifiers; ELT: Exams and tests of English for specific purposes; English; English for Special/Specific Purposes (ESP) (Linguistics ASC3); For ELT / ESL learning, courses, examinations and certificates; For language learning courses and examinations; Germanic and Scandinavian languages; Higher and further education; Indo-European languages; Language and Education; Language and Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language arts (Higher); Language arts (Higher)-Correlation with content subjects; Language learning for specific purposes; Language qualifiers; Language teaching and learning; Linguistics; Society and Social Sciences; Teaching English and Literacy (Education ASC3); Teaching of a specific subject; Teaching Specific Subjects; tertiary education
• ISBN: 9781350110410; 1350110418; 1350110396; 9781350110397; 1350110388; 9781350110380
• DOI: 10.5040/9781350110410

This book is published open access. The field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) developed to address the needs of students whose mother tongue is not English. However, the linguistic competence required to achieve academic success at any university where English is the medium of instruction is a challenge for all students. While there are linguistic features common to academic literacy as a general genre, closer investigation reveals significant differences from one academic field to another. This volume asks what good writing is within specific disciplines, focussing on student work. Each chapter provides key insights by EAP professionals, based on their research in which they bring together analysis of student writing and interviews with subject specialists and markers who determine what ‘good writing’ is in their discipline. The volume includes chapters on established disciplines which have had less attention in the EAP and academic writing literature to date, including music, formal linguistics, and dentistry, as well as new and growing fields of study such as new media. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.