Developing international EFL/ESL scholarly writers /

This text provides a research-based approach for developing EFL/ESL writers in disciplinary/professional context. Research results disclose the interplay among strategies, skills, quality assessment, and stages (a) defining strategic competence for participants, and (b) acting as catalyst for increa...

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Main Authors: Bain Butler, Donna (Author)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: De Gruyter Mouton,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2015]
©2015
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies in second and foreign language education [ssfle]; 7
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781614512691
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Summary: This text provides a research-based approach for developing EFL/ESL writers in disciplinary/professional context. Research results disclose the interplay among strategies, skills, quality assessment, and stages (a) defining strategic competence for participants, and (b) acting as catalyst for increasing writing proficiency in a legal research paper or article.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(xvii,296pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9781614512691
Index Number: P301
CLC: H315
Contents: Frontmatter --
Foreword /
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
Contents --
1. Making a Difference in the Academic Writing of International Graduate Students --
2. What We Know About Academic Writer Challenges and Differences --
3. Determining What International Student Writers Know and Can Do --
4. Research Population Representativeness and Research Methods --
5. Performance Enhancing Measures --
6. Variables Influencing Strategic Competence --
7. Profiles --
8. Developing Learner-User Agency --
9. Connecting Learning with Teaching --
10. Coda Chapter: Transformation in a Nutshell --
References --
Key Definitions --
Appendix --
Index.