Description
This poster presentation will (1) explain the differences between the ESP genre approach and the rhetorical genre approach (RGS), (2) point out potential pitfalls of a solely ESP genre-based approach, (3) provide the major tenets of the RGS, (3) highlight particularly relevant concepts for teaching research genres to graduate students in their disciplines, and (4) suggest ways to strengthen an ESP genre-based curriculum by infusing some ideas form RGS.
Primary author
Tosh Tachino
(The University of Electro-Communications)
