خلاصة:
Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of it. The fact that we write for many reasons and purposes, that there are diverse contexts in which written texts are produced and consumed, and that those who wish to learn writing have diverse backgrounds and needs, all push the study of writing into wider frameworks of investigation. Teaching and Researching Writing should be seen as a response to the necessity of understanding these wider frameworks and meeting the needs of teachers and learners who belong to totally diverse contexts. As a brilliant reflection of many years of scholarly work of its writer, Ken Hyland, combined with insights from other prominent figures, the book primarily helps us gain glimpses of different social, cultural and institutional dimensions in which written communication operates.
ملخص الجهاز:
Hyland’s admirable applied linguistic perspective i links the social, cultural and institutional aspects of written communication to diverse research potentials and finally to multiple dimensions of the classroom practice of teaching and learning writing.
The three chapters in Section I provide a rich conceptual overview of how writing can and should be defined by being linked to a number of key issues including text, writer, reader, context, literacy, expertise, technology, identity, dominance, culture, plagiarism and error.
The theory-research-practice structure of the book reflects a true applied linguistic perspective; the cycle as developed by the author is meant to tell us that teaching/ learning problems encountered in writing classrooms cannot be adequately addressed unless we conduct problem oriented research in light of deep conceptual and theoretical understanding.