Writing : texts, processes, and practices

Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices offers an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to writing in a variety of academic and professional settings. The book is composed of a series of original research-based accounts by leading authorities from a range of disciplines. The papers are linked through a unifying perspective which emphasises the role of cultural and institutional practices in the construction and interpretation of written texts. This important new book integrates different approaches to text analysis, different perspectives on writing processes, and the different methodologies used to research written texts. Throughout,an explicit link is made between research and practice illustrated with reference to a number of case studies drawn from professional and classroom contexts. The book will be of considerable interest to those concerned with professional or academic writing and will be of particular value to students and lecturers in applied linguistics, communication studies, discourse analysis, and professional communications training. The contributors to this volume are: Robert J. Barrett Vijay K. Bhatia Christopher N. Candlin Yu-Ying Chang Sandra Gollin Ken Hyland Roz Ivanic Mary R. Lea Ian G. Malcolm John Milton Greg Myers Guenter A. Plum Brian Street John M. Swales Sue Weldon Patricia Wright Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 8 List of contributors 10 Editors' acknowledgements 13 Publisher's acknowledgements 14 Introduction: Integrating approaches to the study of writing 16 Part I Expression: focus on text 34 1 Integrating products, processes, purposes and participants in professional writing 36 2 Interaction in writing: principles and problems 55 3 Writing as academic literacies: understanding textual practices in higher education 77 Part II Interpretation: focus on process 98 4 Writing and information design of healthcare materials 100 5 Disciplinary discourses: writer stance in research articles 114 6 Writing as an intercultural process 137 Part III Explanation: focus on research 158 7 Informal elements in English academic writing: threats or opportunities for advanced non-native speakers? 160 8 Researching the writer-reader relationship 183 9 Engaging with challenges of interdiscursivity in academic writing: researchers, students and tutors 208 Part IV Realisation: focus on praxis 234 10 Lexical thickets and electronic gateways: making text accessible by novice writers 236 11 The writing-talking cure: an ethnography of record-speech events in a psychiatric hospital 259 12 'Why? I thought we'd talked about it before': collaborative writing in a professional workplace setting 282 Bibliography 306 Author index 337 Subject index 341 __Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices__This important new book integrates different approaches to text analysis, different perspectives on writing processes, and the different methodologies used to research written texts. Throughout,an explicit link is made between research and practice illustrated with reference to a number of case studies drawn from professional and classroom contexts.The book will be of considerable interest to those concerned with professional or academic writing and will be of particular value to students and lecturers in applied linguistics, communication studies, discourse analysis, and professional communications training.The contributors to this volume are: Robert J. BarrettVijay K. BhatiaChristopher N. CandlinYu-Ying ChangSandra GollinKen HylandRoz IvanicMary R. LeaIan G. MalcolmJohn MiltonGreg MyersGuenter A. PlumBrian StreetJohn M. SwalesSue WeldonPatricia Wright The contributors to this study offer a multidisciplinary approach to writing in a variety of academic and professional settings, based upon a collection of research-based accounts Edited By Christopher N. Candlin And Ken Hyland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.