`The book is informative, clearly written and well organized. It is a significant contribution to the genre discussion in general, and to the teaching of academic writing in particular.' LinguistList<BR><BR>The focus of this book is the use of genre-based approaches to teaching academic writing. Genre-based courses enable second language learners to integrate their linguistic, organizational and contextual knowledge in a variety of different tasks. The book reviews pedagogical approaches to genre through English for Specific Purposes and Systemic Functional Linguistics to present a synthesis of the current research being undertaken in the field. From this theoretical base, lan Bruce proposes a new model of genre-based approaches to academic writing, and analyzes the ways in which this can be implemented in pedagogy and curriculum design.<BR><BR>Academic Writing and Genre is a cutting-edge monograph which will be essential reading for researchers in applied linguistics.