Analysing Academic Writing: Contextualized Frameworks

Using a Systemic Functional Linguistic approach, the contributors to this volume foreground the relations between academic writing and the social, cultural and educational context in which such writing takes place. The contributors, who are renowned linguists and second language experts, cover such topics as the effect of the International English Language Testing System on academic writing; the role of technology in pedagogic discourse; the problems of constructing an evaluative stance in academic writing; and technical writing in a second language. This is a paperback reprint of the 2004 edition printed by Ravelli, Ellis and the contributors. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)