| Popis: |
The Department of English, Gothenburg University, has for over a decade offered an introductory writing course for about 150 first-term students. Due to budget restraints and availability of teachers, the department has found it possible to offer only four workshops (of three hours each) per term for all students at the same time in a lecture hall. In addition, the students have typically been divided into groups of about 25 for eight classroom hours spread over the whole term. A distinction has been made between text types and genres. The first part of the course has focused on three basic expository text types, causal analysis, problem solving and argumentation. Students have studied model texts in order to strengthen their meta-cognitive basis and produce their own texts within a process-oriented model. At the end of the term, students have also written a genre — i.e., discipline-specific — paper in literary studies. The article describes the course and discusses the rationale for the focus on text types in an introductory academic writing course. |
