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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Superior document:Forum Angewandte Linguistik, Band 56
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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
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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.