What is Good Academic Writing?

Melinda Whong is Associate Professor of Language Education, and Director of the Center for Language Education at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.Jeanne Godfrey is Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. She has held the positions of Head of Department, Principal Lecturer in Learning and Teaching, and Chair of BALEAP. She is the author of several EAP student books.

This volume addresses one of the most important questions in English for Academic Purposes. The answers it provides are thoroughly grounded in practice, and presented in a way that will allow practitioners to apply them to their own writing classrooms. Taken individually, the chapters shed useful light on the textual features prized in a range of academic disciplines. Collectively, they provide an exemplary blueprint for practice-proximate work on the scholarship of teaching and learning.

• Series Editor ForewordIntroduction: The Good Writing Project, Melinda Whong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) and Jeanne Godfrey (University of Leeds, UK)1. A Collaborative Scholarship Model of EAP Research and Practice, Jeanne Godfrey (University of Leeds, UK) and Melinda Whong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)2. The Written Discourse Genres of Digital Media Studies, Simon Webster (University of Leeds, UK)3. Exploring Clarity in the Discipline of Design, Clare Maxwell (University of Leeds, UK)4. Musicology and Its Others, Karen Burland, Edward Venn and Scott McLaughlin (University of Leeds, UK)5. Good Academic Reflective Writing in Dentistry, Marion Bowman (University of Leeds, UK) 6. Dissertations in Fine Art, Sara Montgomery (University of Leeds, UK)7. Good Writing in Linguistics, Diane Nelson and Valentina Brunetto (University of Leeds, UK)Afterword, Ian Bruce (University of Waikato, New Zealand)References Index