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Academic writing in English and Polish: comparing and subverting genres
Author(s) -
Duszak Anna
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/j.1473-4192.1998.tb00129.x
Subject(s) - argumentative , task (project management) , linguistics , academic writing , psychology , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics education , engineering , philosophy , systems engineering
The paper addresses the discourse domains of academic writing in English and Polish using the example of school writing. The English argumentative‐expository essay is related to its potential counterpart in Polish. Incongruencies between the two genre prototypes are examined in terms of cultural emphases, text characteristics and educational traditions. An integrated approach is adopted in which user‐centered and text‐centered parameters are correlated. To drive the issue home, an empirical project was devised in which Polish students were asked to perform a task that subverted the regular expectations of school writing in their native tongue.