In the new book introduction section, Nguyen Thuc Hao information center and library would like to introduce to readers two English books which are related to writing skills. These books are  useful sources of reference, learning and teaching materials for teachers and students.

    The readers who are interested in,  can  go to Nguyen Thuc Hao information center and library (5th Floor – The Foreign bookreading room) to be served. Below is some information about these two books:

1. Academic Writing: An Introduction - Fourth Edition

 By: Janet GiltrowRichard GoodingDaniel Burgoyne

 Publisher: ‎ Broadview Press; 4th edition (2021) - 392 pages

 

About the Authors 

Janet Giltrow is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Arts at the University of British Columbia.

Richard Gooding is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

Daniel Burgoyne is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Vancouver Island University.

Introduction

        Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student readers to the lively community of research and writing beyond the classroom, with its complex interactions, values, and goals. It presents writing from a range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, cultivating students’ awareness of the subtle differences in genre.

        The fourth edition has been revised throughout and includes a new chapter on visual rhetoric, a new section on the academic peer review system, updated examples, expanded exercises, and new glossary entries.

Review

        "Academic Writing: An Introduction draws on current research in writing studies to usher students (and teachers) into an accessible but sophisticated overview of how university readers and writers create knowledge. This textbook demystifies academic writing by showing students how and why experts make their rhetorical moves within specific situations. Grounded in genre theory, the text offers teachers specific disciplinary tools to use to help students learn to read as well as to write university genres. Packed with examples from genres produced inside and outside the academy, the text offers rich potential for class discussion, and for individual or collaborative writing projects that would prepare students to move into disciplinary research situations (and beyond). Academic Writing is unique because it goes beyond describing the 'conventions' of research writing to, instead, richly illustrate what motivates this writing: why scholars cite sources, conduct peer review, or prefer a nominal style. I highly recommend this text for teachers who seek to prepare students to conduct research in their fields and beyond their undergraduate educations." -- Mary Soliday, San Francisco State University

Praise for previous editions:

        "Like any complex rhetorical art, good academic writing is less a matter of conforming to rules than of exercising judgment, informed by a sense of audience expectations and developed by disciplined practice. Academic Writing: An Introduction is one of those rare guides that knows this, and helps students help themselves. As students work through the book's many imaginative exercises, they will find themselves developing a new level of rhetorical judgment. Not only will they be better equipped to deal with writing assignments in a variety of disciplines; they will likely go on improving as writers after their introductory course has been completed." -- Brian Turner, Centre for Academic Writing, University of Winnipeg

2. Academic Writing in a Second Language: Essays on Research and Pedagogy.

By: Diane Belcher, George Braine

Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation - Norwood, NJ (1995) - 410 pages.

 

About the Authors

        Diane Belcher is Acting Director of the ESL Composition Program at Ohio State University. Her reviews and articles on second language writing have appeared in English for Specific Purposes, The Modern Language Journal, The Rhetoric Society Quarterly,and other journals.

        George Braine is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Alabama. He has taught ESL and EFL in Sri Lanka, Oman, and the United States for over 20 years.

Introduction

        The authors’ aim throughout this volume is to help make the Anglophone postsecondary academic discourse community feel more “beckoning” than “threatening” to nonnative speakers of English. All of the contributions to this volume have been motivated by the authors’ involvement as teachers and researchers with ESL students and fellow ESL teachers at the authors’ own and other postsecondary institutions. While it would certainly be gratifying if the authors’ reflections on academic literacy issues, their research findings, and their pedagogical suggestions were found to be relevant to the readers’ own teaching environments, it would be far more gratifying if their volume encouraged readers to learn more about the wider social contexts in which their students function after leaving the ESL classrooms.

        The book is divided into three parts: issues, research, and pedagogy. The four articles under “issues” are among the most stimulating. Schneider and Fujishima present a representative figure EAP teachers must worry about: the student who doesn’t improve despite declarative knowledge of the right strategies and plenty of hard work, and finally  has to leave. The other articles really have to be evaluated in terms of what they tell us about his situation and what could be done. Leki describes a revealing investigation of how writing is evaluated, by students, EAP staff, LI composition teachers, and subject specialists. The very different responses confirm that literacy is relative and situation/ discipline-specific, and also, in contrast, that most people think it is absolute and unproblematic. One problem that students have, therefore, is that literacy strategies successful in one (US) context fail in another.

Welcome all readers to read and  enjoy these books !

 

(Hai Yen - Nguyen Thuc Hao information center and library)