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Download full textJones, Donald – 1999
This paper advocates a pragmatist approach to teaching the composition of academic discourse. It discusses teaching directly the conflicting positions of academic discourse as elitist jargon or as key to advanced conceptualization. The suggested pedagogical method involves the examination of academic discourse in general, and the procedure of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College Curriculum, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
