Discipline-Specific Writing

John Flowerdew is Professor Emeritus at City University of Hong Kong and is now based in the UK, where he is a Visiting Professor at Lancaster University. Tracey Costley is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

1. Introduction
2. Investigating local sociocultural and institutional contexts for discipline-specific writing
3. Developing writing courses for specific academic purposes
4. The role of grammar in the discipline-specific writing curriculum
5. Approaches and perspectives on teaching vocabulary for discipline-specific academic writing
6. Using genre analysis to teach writing in the disciplines
7. Teaching writing for science and technology
8. Using annotated bibliographies to develop student writing in social sciences
9. Discipline-specific writing for business students: research, practice and pedagogy
10. Teaching English for Research Publication Purposes with a focus on genre, register, textual mentors and language re-use: a case study
11. Introducing corpora and corpus tools into the technical writing classroom through Data-Driven Learning (DDL)
12. Critical literacy writing in ESP: perspectives and approaches
13. Towards a specific writing language assessment at Hong Kong universities