Teaching Academic Writing in European Higher Education

DAVID R. RUSSELL English Department of Iowa State University, U. S. A. I was fortunate to attend, as a visitor from the U. S. , the first European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) conference in 2001 at Groningen. I was struck by th

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STUDIES IN WRITING VOLUME 12

Series Editor: Gert Rijlaarsdam, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Editorial Board: Linda Allal, University of Geneva, Switzerland Eric Espéret, University of Poitiers, France David Galbraith, Staffordshire University, UK Joachim Grabowski, University of Heidelberg, Germany Ronald Kellogg, St. Louis University, USA Lucia Mason, University of Padova, Italy Marta Milian, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Spain Sarah Ransdell, Florida Atlantic University, USA Liliana Tolchinsky, University of Barcelona, Spain Mark Torrance, Staffordshire University, UK Annie Piolat, University of Aix-en-Provence, France Païvi Tynjala, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Carel van Wijk, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Kluwer Academic Publishers continues to publish the international book series Studies in Writing, founded by Amsterdam University Press. The intended readers are all those interested in the foundations of writing and learning and teaching processes in written composition. The series aims at multiple perspectives of writing, education and texts. Therefore authors and readers come from various fields of research, from curriculum development and from teacher training. Fields of research covered are cognitive, sociocognitive and developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, text linguistics, curriculum development, instructional science. The series aim to cover theoretical issues, supported by empirical research, quantitative as well as qualitative, representing a wide range of nationalities. The series provides a forum for research from established researchers and welcomes contributions from young researchers.

Teaching Academic Writing in European Higher Education Edited by

Lennart Björk University of Göteborg, Sweden

Gerd Bräuer Emory University, Atlanta, U.S.A. and University of Education, Freiburg, Germany

Lotte Rienecker University of Copenhagen, Denmark and

Peter Stray Jörgensen University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE David A. Russell

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TEACHING ACADEMIC WRITING IN EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN INTRODUCTION Lennart Björk, Gerd Bräuer, Lotte Rienecker & Peter Stray Jörgensen

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PART ONE: TEXT AND WRITER GETTING STARTED: ACADEMIC WRITING IN THE FIRST YEAR OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION Otto Kruse

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TEXT TYPES, TEXTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND ACADEMIC WRITING ABILITY Lennart Björk

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TEACHING ACADEMIC WRITING TO INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: INDIVIDUAL TUTORING AS A SUPPLEMENT