Developing and assessing academic and professional writing skills / Susanne Göpferich, Imke Neumann (eds.).
Academic literacy used to be considered a complex set of skills that develop automatically as a by-product of academic socialization. Since the Bologna Reform with its shorter degree programmes, however, it has been realized that these skills need to be fostered actively. Simultaneously, writing ski...
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| Language: | English |
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Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] :
Peter Lang GmbH,
2016.
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| Series: | Forum Angewandte Linguistik ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Developing and assessing academic and professional writing skills
- An introduction; Part I: Vocabulary and terminology in academic writing; Writing for specific purposes: Developing business students' ability to 'technicalize' (Christine S. Sing); Coverage and development of academic vocabulary in assessment texts in English Medium Instruction (Hans Malmström, Diane Pecorari, Magnus Gustafsson); Part II: Complex writing competence constructs
- Assessing writing in vocational education and training schools: Results from an intervention study (Liana Konstantinidou, Joachim Hoefele, Otto Kruse)Writing competence profiles as an assessment grid?
- Students' L1 and L2 writing competences and their development after one semester of instruction (Susanne Göpferich, Imke Neumann); Part III: Subjective conceptions of writing and how to foster it; Portfolios as a means of developing and assessing writing skills (Sandra Ballweg)
- "Prepare an outline first and then just write spontaneously"
- An analysis of students' writing strategies and their attitudes towards professional writing (Sabine Dengscherz, Melanie Steindl)Notes on contributors.