Creating Materials for Teaching Evaluation in Academic Writing: Using Letters to the Editor in L2 Composition Courses.

Bloch, Joel

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ERIC Number: EJ674826

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Creating Materials for Teaching Evaluation in Academic Writing: Using Letters to the Editor in L2 Composition Courses.

Bloch, Joel

English for Specific Purposes, v22 n4 p347-64 2003

Proposes that an analysis of academic letters provides insight into the variety of language forms used both formally and informally in academic writing and into the entire process by which knowledge is produced, evaluated, and published. Analyzed a sample of letters to the editor. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Editors, English for Special Purposes, Journal Articles, Letters (Correspondence), Scholarly Journals, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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