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• What Is Genre?

  • Genre has been described as, “Slippery”, “Fuzzy” (Swales, 1990)“Enormously complex” (Freedman, 1994)The source of “confusion” and “annoyance” (Richardson, 1994)

• How Should Genres Be Taught?

  • Proposed ways in which genres should be taughte.g. Freedman (1994), Coe (1994), Hunt (1994)

• Teaching Genres in a Foreign Language Classroom

  • Teaching research article writing (title, abstract) incomputer science

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