Teaching and Researching Writing

Cover; Teaching and Researching Writing; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I: Concepts and issues; 1 An overview of writing; 1.1 Text-oriented research and teaching; 1.2 Writer-oriented research and teaching; 1.3 Reader-oriented research and teaching; 1.4 Conclusion; 2 Key issues in writing; 2.1 Writing and context; 2.2 Literacy and expertise; 2.3 Writing and culture; 2.4 Writing and technology; 2.5 Writing and genre; 2.6 Writing and identity; 2.7 Conclusion; Section II: Applying writing research. 3 Research-based writing courses3.1 Research and writing pedagogy; 3.2 Writ 101: process in practice; 3.3 Genre in primary classrooms: the New South Wales (NSW) K-6 syllabus; 3.4 Go for Gold writing for a reason; 3.5 Understanding professional and academic texts; 4 Research-based materials, methods and resources; 4.1 Research writing: an advanced EAP textbook; 4.2 WordPilot 2000: corpora-assisted writing; 4.3 A lexis for study? The Academic Word List; 4.4 Scaffolding literacy skills: writing frames; 4.5 Check My Words: technology and autonomy; 4.6 Writing portfolios: pedagogy and assessment. Section III: Researching writing5 Research practices and research issues; 5.1 Practitioner research; 5.2 Research issues; 5.3 Research methods; 5.4 Research topics; 6 Research cases: observing and reporting; 6.1 Questionnaire research on faculty beliefs and practices; 6.2 Experimental research on peer-response training; 6.3 Interview research on scientists' writing practices; 6.4 Protocol research on the writing process; 6.5 Diary research on the research process; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Research cases: texts and contexts; 7.1 Genre analysis research on scientific abstracts. 7.2 Contrastive rhetoric research on hedging and boosting7.3 Case-study research of workplace writing; 7.4 Ethnographic research on teacher written feedback; 7.5 Literacy research among disadvantaged adults; 7.6 Conclusion; Section IV: References and resources; 8 Key areas and texts; 8.1 Literacy; 8.2 Rhetoric; 8.3 Scientific and technical writing; 8.4 Professional and business communication; 8.5 First-language writing; 8.6 Journalism and print media; 8.7 Second-language writing instruction; 8.8 Pragmatics; 8.9 Translation studies; 8.10 Literary studies; 8.11 English for Academic Purposes. 8.12 Blogs, wikis and webpages8.13 Multimodal discourses; 8.14 Forensic linguistics; 8.15 Creative writing; 9 Key sources; 9.1 Books; 9.2 Journals; 9.3 Professional associations; 9.4 Writing conferences; 9.5 Email lists and bulletin boards; 9.6 Writing websites; 9.7 Databases; Glossary; References; Author Index; Subject Index.