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Although much has been written about Abraham Lincoln, there has been little rhetorical analysis of how this public man communicated with his listeners.

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Shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world. This book describes the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities.

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Shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world, and offers a description of the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities. This title is suitable for students studying TESOL, applied linguistics, and English for Academic Purposes.

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Offers an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. This book uses the theoretical tradition of New Literacy Studies, and applies this to a case study of one university in the changing context of South Africa.

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Offers an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. This book probes some of the limitations by looking at the complex interactions taking place between students' diverse language and educational histories, their literacy practices, and institutional discourses.

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An investigation of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English. >

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An investigation of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English.

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Genre-based courses enable second language learners to integrate their linguistic, organisational and contextual knowledge in a variety of different tasks. This book reviews pedagogical approaches to genre through English for Specific Purposes and Systemic Functional Linguistics to present a synthesis of the research in the field.

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Proposes a fresh model of genre-based approaches to academic writing, and analyses the ways in which this can be implemented in pedagogy and curriculum design. This book focuses on the use of genre-based approaches to teaching academic writing. It is suitable for researchers in applied linguistics.

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Examines what constitutes plagiarism in academic writing using empirical data and from a linguistic perspective. >

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Examines what constitutes plagiarism in academic writing using empirical data and from a linguistic perspective. >

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Examines plagiarism, the inappropriate relationship between a text and its sources, from a linguistic perspective. This book uses empirical data drawn from a sample of student writing, compared against written sources to argue that some plagiarism can be regarded as a failure of pedagogy rather than a deliberate attempt to transgress.

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Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.

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Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.

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Focuses on the issues and challenges facing ESL/EFL students and scholars who choose to, or have to, write in English in higher education contexts.

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Contemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches: corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. This book illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches. It is suitable for researches and postgraduates in applied linguistics.

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Aselection of recent work by experts in academic written discourse illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches.

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Explores how British trainee teachers modify their accents to construct an identity considered 'appropriate' for their profession and discusses the impact on their personal identity.

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This book presents a theory of speech-sound generation in the human vocal system.

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Presents an analysis of the problems of learning a second language as experienced by a family of learners. This book includes a study of a family of L2 English learners, focusing on a tightly-knit group of learners' acquisition of phonology over a longitudinal timeframe, and a study of social and linguistic factors in that time period.

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A study of the phonological development of a family of L2 English learners. It analyses data from actual language learners to examine the developmental processes involved in acquiring a nonnative sound system. It focuses on a tightly-knit group of learners' acquisition of phonology over a longitudinal timeframe.

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