Academic Writing and Reader Engagement

<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>This book:</p><ul> <p> </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> <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> <li>Brings together research on corpus and contrastive linguistics highlighting how these two fields can support one another; </li> <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 academic writing in each language;</li> <p> </p> <li>Employs corpus data totalling approximately 1.2 million words from all three languages to illustrate the varying roles and representations of questions in each language.</li> </ul><p>Providing an invaluable resource for scholars learning to communicate successfully within their academic community as well as teachers of English French and/or Spanish for academic purposes this book is key reading for students and researchers of academic discourse contrastive linguistics and corpus linguistics.</p>