Families of genres of assessed writing

Hilary Nesi; Sheena Gardner

Families of genres of assessed writing

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Abstract

Hyland’s definition of genres as ‘abstract, socially recognised ways of using language’ is general enough to be widely acceptable, but as such it masks significant differences in how genres are more specifically defined and operationalised in research and teaching contexts. This chapter explains what we mean by academic genres, and how we classify genres of assessed student writing into groups of similar genres, called genre families.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Genres across the Disciplines: Student Writing in Higher Education
Editors	H. Nesi, S. Gardner
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	21-56
ISBN (Print)	9780521149594
Publication status	Published - Feb 2012

Keywords

student writing
higher education
BAWE corpus
linguistics

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Genres across the Disciplines: Student Writing in Higher Education
Nesi, H. & Gardner, S., 2012, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Genres across the Disciplines: Student Writing in Higher Education

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