Developing academic literacy
By: George Blue [ed.].
Contributors: Blue, George
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9783039115457
Notes: Selected papers presented at the conference held by BALEAP (British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes) at the University of Southampton in the spring of 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Developing academic literacy : introduction / George Blue; title: Issues in academic literacy. Literacy or literacies? academic identities in a language-sharing world / Christopher Brumfit; title: The positioning of learners and educators in discourses associated with academic literacy / Sian Preece; title: Supporting academic literacy : issues of proofreading and language proficiency / Joan Turner; title: The use of academic vocabulary in the coursework of international students : some pedagogic considerations / John Straker; title: Criticality and evaluative language. Critical thinking and evaluative language use in academic writing : a comparative cross-cultural study / Fiona Cotton; title: Putting "I" in its place : using academic texts to help students learn "how to give opinions" / Bill Guariento and Esther Daborn; title: The PhD literature review : a journey of discovery / Diana Ridley; title: The benefits of the staged approach to the term paper for foundation level students / Julia Jeannet and Clare Wright; title: Academic literacy in the disciplines. Literacy and mathematics learning / Bill Barton and Pip Neville-Barton; title: Combining process, product and genre on a graduate EAP writing course "outside of the disciplines" / Steve Marshall and Simon Williams; title: Developing web-based corpora for EAP / Julie Hartill and David Lefevre; title: The use of technology in developing academic literacy. The "essay literacy" gap, an online resource and a usability test / Karen Nicholls; title: Getting inside the black box : how do EAP learners begin to think about autonomy? / Lynn Errey; title: Patterns of revision in first language and second language writing / Alasdair Archibald; title: The virtual vocabulary notebook : the electronic dictionary as vocabulary learning tool / Hilary Nesi.