Academic Writing And Reader Engagement Av Niall Curry

<P><EM>Academic Writing and Reader Engagement</EM> 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. </P><P></P><P>This book:</P><P></P><UL><P><LI>Enables a better understanding of how writers engage readers in academic writing in English, French, and Spanish and where each language behaves similarly or differently;</LI><P></P><P><LI>Explains how authors express opinions, organise discourse and create relationships with readers via questions in their academic writing and the various functions questions perform;</LI><P></P><P><LI>Brings together research on corpus and contrastive linguistics, highlighting how these two fields can support one another; </LI><P></P><P><LI>Offers a thorough investigation of reader engagement markers from a range of linguistic perspectives and considers how knowledge of these markers could be applied to the teaching and learning of academ