Developing and assessing academic and professional writing skills / / Susanne Göpferich, Imke Neumann (eds.).

• Superior document: Forum Angewandte Linguistik, Band 56
• TeilnehmendeR: Göpferich, Susanne,; Neumann, Imke,
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : : Peter Lang GmbH,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Forum Angewandte Linguistik ; Band 56.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (205 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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 skills development at all levels of education has been faced with the challenge of increasingly multilingual and multicultural groups of pupils and students. This book addresses the questions of how both academic and professional writing skills can be fostered under these conditions and how the development of writing skills can be measured.

Table of Contents

Pt. 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 / Magnus Gustafsson -- pt. II Complex writing competence constructs -- Assessing writing in vocational education and training schools: Results from an intervention study / Otto Kruse -- Writing competence profiles as an assessment grid? -- Students' L1 and L2 writing competences and their development after one semester of instruction / Imke Neumann -- pt. 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 / Melanie Steindl.