Developing Academic Literacies: Understanding Disciplinary Communities' Culture

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This book combines a social constructionist view of academic writing with a pedagogical orientation seeking to explore the dialogic relationship between the culture of academic discourse communities and their rhetoric, and provide a comprehensive analysis of variation across disciplines, genres and national intellectual cultures. The analysis focuses on the rhetorical organisation of research genres and the resources that convey authors' epistemic and attitudinal stance. The findings form the basis for the design of socio-culturally oriented learning materials for the teaching of writing in the disciplines and the development of academic literacies.

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The Author: Dimitra Koutsantoni holds a Ph.D. in English (Applied Linguistics) from the University of Birmingham (2003). She has researched and taught academic writing at the Universities of Warwick, Aston and Luton, UK. She has published in the areas of genre and discourse analysis, contrastive rhetoric, e-learning/blended learning, and intercultural pragmatics, while she has also written policy papers and reports on the internationalisation of higher education.

Table of Contents

Contents: Disciplinary Communities' Culture and Genres - Rhetorical Patterns in Disciplinary Written Communication: Genre Analysis - Engaging in Dialogue: Hedges - Investing in Propositions and Alluding to Shared Understandings: Attitude, Certainty and Common Knowledge Markers - Appearing as the Author, Researcher and Originator of Claims: Personal Attribution - Rhetoric and National Cultures: Cross-Cultural Variation - Developing Academic Literacies - In Practice.

Details ISBN3039105752 Pages 302 Publisher Verlag Peter Lang Series Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics ISBN-10 3039105752 ISBN-13 9783039105755 Format Paperback Imprint Verlag Peter Lang Subtitle Understanding Disciplinary Communities' Culture and Rhetoric Country of Publication Switzerland Edited by Graeme Davis Birth 1965 Author Dimitra Koutsantoni Place of Publication Pieterlen DEWEY 401 Year 2007 Short Title DEVELOPING ACADEMIC LITERACIES Language English Media Book Series Number 4 Publication Date 2007-10-29 DOI 10.1604/9783039105755 UK Release Date 2007-10-29 Audience General We've got this

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