Martin Hewings

Academic Writing in Context: Implications and Applications: Papers in Honour of Tony Dudley-evans Martin Hewings New edition

Brief Description: Explores a number of themes of interest to those engaged in researching and teaching academic genres. This book is of interest to students on Master's programmes in Teaching English as a Second Langauge and Applied Linguistics, and to scholars researching issues of academic literacy. Biographical Note: Martin Hewings is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Birmingham. Marc Notes: Papers collected as a tribute to Tony Dudley-Evans on his retirement from the University of Birmingham.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244) and index. Table of Contents: ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction; Marting Hewings2. Publications by Tony Dudley-Evans3. Distanced and refined selves: educational tensions in writing with the power of knowledge; Charles Bazerman 4. The future is with us: preparing diverse students for the challenges of university texts and cultures; Ann M. Johns5. Descriptions or explanations? Some methodological issues in Contrastive Rhetoric; Anna Mauranen6. From evidence to conclusion: the case of 'indicate that'; Tim Johns7. 'In my opinion': the place of personal views in undergraduate essays; Greg Myers8. Analysing genre: some conceptual issues; Vijay K. Bhatia 9. Abstracting from abstracts; Thomas Huckin10. Short answers in first-year science writing. What kind of genres are they?; Helen Drury11. Introductory textbooks and disiplinary acculturation: a case study from social anthropology; Alison Love12. Cyberdiscourse, evolving notions of authorship, and the teaching of writing; Diane Belcher13. Exemplification strategy in Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'; Willie Henderson14. Active verbs with inanimate subjects in scientific research articles; Peter Master15. There'll be some changes made: predicting future events in academic and business genres; Meriel Bloor and Thomas Bloor16. Anticipatory 'it' in academic writing: an indicator of disciplinary difference and developing disciplinary knowledge; Ann Hewings and Michael Hewings 17. Reflections on collaborative practice in EAP materials production; John M. Searle and Christine B. Feak ReferencesIndex

Contributor Bio:  Hewings, Martin Martin Hewings is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Birmingham.