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      A role for genre-based pedagogy in academic writing instruction?: an EAP perspective

      Bruce, Ian
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      Bruce, I. (2013). A role for genre-based pedagogy in academic writing instruction?: an EAP perspective. TEXT Special Issue 21: Scores from another ground, 21, 1-15.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8510
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      In this paper I discuss the use of genre as a theoretical construct in academic writing instruction in the context of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses. I begin by considering the notion of discourse competence as a concept that accounts for the knowledge elements and skills employed by expert academic writers, and then consider genre as a way of operationalizing the different elements of discourse competence knowledge for the purpose of writing instruction. I review briefly the diversity of approaches to theorizing genre knowledge, and then present the dual social genre/cognitive genre approach that I have used as a basis for research and course design in an EAP context. I exemplify this model by summarizing the key elements of two studies of research genres in which I have used this model. I conclude with a brief theoretical discussion of the issue of construct validity in relation to using the concept of genre in research that relates to writing instruction.
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      2013
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      This article has been published in the journal: TEXT Special Issue 21: Scores from another ground. Used with permission.
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