Discipline-Specific Writing provides an introduction and guide for students and trainee teachers on how to teach this topic. Writing remains a central area of learning, research and teaching at the university but the focus is now on discipline-specific writing as a critical area of study and competence for all students. This book provides comprehensive coverage of this subject including contextual backgrounds, course design, language features, specific disciplinary focusses, genre, corpus-based approaches, critical approaches, and assessment. This book is key reading for students taking courses in English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, TESOL, TEFL and CELTA.

1. Introduction2. Investigating local sociocultural and institutional contexts for discipline-specific writing3. Developing writing courses for specific academic purposes4. The role of grammar in the discipline-specific writing curriculum5. Approaches and perspectives on teaching vocabulary for discipline-specific academic writing6. Using genre analysis to teach writing in the disciplines7. Teaching writing for science and technology8. Using annotated bibliographies to develop student writing in social sciences9. Discipline-specific writing for business students: research, practice and pedagogy10. Teaching English for Research Publication Purposes with a focus on genre, register, textual mentors and language re-use: a case study11. Introducing corpora and corpus tools into the technical writing classroom through Data-Driven Learning (DDL)12. Critical literacy writing in ESP: perspectives and approaches13. Towards a specific writing language assessment at Hong Kong universities