Teaching and Researching Writing

Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education and Director of the Centre for Academic and Professional Literacies at the Institute of Education, University of London. A co-editor of the journal Applied Linguistics, he has worked in 6 different countries and published over 130 articles and 14 books on language teaching, EAP and second language writing.

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

Further reading

 

2   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

Further reading

 

Section II: Applying writing research

3   Research-based writing courses

3.1   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

Further readings  

 

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

4.4   Check my words: technology and autonomy

4.5  Writing portfolios: pedagogy and assessment

Further reading   

 

Section III: Researching writing

5   Research practices and research issues

5.1   Practitioner research

5.2   Research issues

5.3   Research  methods

5.4   Research  topics

Further reading   

 

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

Further reading   

 

7   Research cases: texts and contexts

7.1   Genre analysis research on scientific abstracts

7.2   Contrastive rhetoric research on hedging and boosting

7.3   Case-study research of workplace writing

7.4   Ethnographic research on teacher written feedback

7.5   Literacy research among disadvantaged adults

7.6   Conclusion

 Further reading   

 

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

8.8   Translation studies

8.9   Literary studies

8.10   English for Academic Purposes

8.11   Blogs, wikis and webpages

8.12   Multimodal discourses

8.13   Forensic linguistics

8.14   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