Academic Writing and Reader Engagement

Name: Academic Writing and Reader Engagement
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Academic Writing and Reader EngagementContrasting Questions in English, French and Spanish Corpora\nAuthor(s): Niall Curry\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367339340, 978-0367339340\nSynopsis\nAcademic Writing and Reader Engagement offers a concise linguistic description of the use and functions of questions in English, French and Spanish and discusses their value to the teaching of academic writing. \n\nThis book:\n\nEnables a better understanding of how writers engage readers in academic writing in English, French, and Spanish and where each language behaves similarly or differently;\n\nExplains how authors express opinions, organise discourse and create relationships with readers via questions in their academic writing and the various functions questions perform;\n\nBrings together research on corpus and contrastive linguistics, highlighting how these two fields can support one another; \n\nOffers a thorough i.