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UNIVERSIDAD DEL ACONCAGUA

ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE LENGUAS EXTRANJERAS



Licenciatura en Ingls CCC 2014

Comprensin y Produccin de Textos en Lengua Inglesa I


OBJETIVOS

Desarrollar la competencia comunicativa acadmica escrita y oral.
Conocer las caractersticas especficas de los gneros de la ciencia.
Dominar las convenciones encontradas en textos acadmicos.
Desarrollar un sentido de la existencia de una comunidad socio-retrica con sus propias
reglas y estrategias.
Explorar el campo del anlisis del gnero dentro de la escuela de Ingls con Fines
Especficos.

CONTENIDOS

Module 1: A Genre Approach to Academic Writing

The academic discourse community and its texts. ESP. Genre in linguistics. Genres and the
social forces shaping them. Genre pedagogy. Homely and academic texts. Corpus linguistics.
Rhetorical consciousness-raising. Schematic structure/Stages/Moves analysis.

Hyland, K. (2006). English for academic purposes: An advanced resource book. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Hyland, K. (2013). Writing in the university: education, knowledge and reputation. Language Teaching 46.1:
5370.
Swales, J. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press.

Module 2:

The role of English in research. The Research Article (RA) in English: its history and
construction. Overall organisation. The Abstract as a stand-alone genre. The IMRD structure.
Introduction. Methods. Results & Discussion. Linguistic resources for conversing with the
scientific/academic community: Titles, politeness strategies, hedging, tense and voice,
nominalisation, in-text citations, formulaic language. Citing references in APA style.

http://mamidala.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/making-your-research-paper-discoverable-title-plays-the-winning-
trick/ (last accessed 15 September 2014)
Hyland, K. (2001). Humble servants of the discipline? Self-mention in research articles. English for specific
purposes 20(3): 207-226.
Salager-Meyer, F. (1994). Hedges and textual communicative function in medical English written discourse.
English for Specific Purposes 13(2), 149-171.
Samraj, Betty. (2002). Introductions in research articles: Variations across disciplines. English for Specific
Purposes 21: 117.
Soler V. (2007). Writing titles in science: an exploratory study. English for Specific Purposes 26: 90102
Swales, J. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press.


Module 3:
The Abstract. Move analysis. Compulsory vs. optional moves. Abstracts in linguistics and
other disciplines. Conference abstracts

Bittencourt Dos Santos, Mauro. (1996). The textual organization of research paper abstracts in
applied linguistics. Text 16 (4): 481499.
Swales, J. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press.
Swales, J. & Feak, C. (2009). Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts. Michigan, US: University of Michigan
Press.

Module 4:
The Abstract. Writing abstracts in English. Differences with Spanish resmenes.

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