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This manual provides guidance on how schools may approach the teaching of a number of writing genres. While the focus is on seven genres, this list is not exhaustive. Appropriate assessment tools are suggested, along with a variety of practical activities.
Process Genre. This approach firstly focuses learners on an occurring situation for which a text is required (purpose). Learners identify why, to whom, what and how they will produce a text (these are described in more detail below).
This article shows how a genre approach has been used in an EFL high school writing course to teach the university application letter genre to students preparing for post-secondary studies.
Conduct a guided genre analysis with students. Choose a few effective examples of a genre that plays a role in your field (from white papers to journal articles to memos) and ask students to take note of repeated and similar features across the examples.
In a final section of Chapter 9 of Genre Analysis, Swales turns his attention to the process approach to writing, arguing that attention needs to be paid not only to the cognitive dimension of such an approach, but also the external, social dimension of the writer's world.
25 maj 2023 · The conceptual framework of the process genre approach informed the design of the course. The framework outlines the developmental stages of learners, beginning with the acquisition and...
1 mar 2012 · In this article I discuss the theoretical understanding and practical experience I have gathered during a five-year process of developing, implementing and evaluating different approaches to teaching writing at King’s College London.
