| Publication type: | Book part |
| Type of review: | Editorial review |
| Title: | Writing cultures and genres in european higher education |
| Authors: | Chitez, Madalina Kruse, Otto |
| Published in: | University writing : selves and texts in academic societies |
| Editors of the parent work: | Castelló, Montserrat Donahue, Christiane |
| Page(s): | 151 |
| Pages to: | 175 |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Series: | Studies in writing |
| Series volume: | 24 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Emerald |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Bingley |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78052-386-6 978-1-78052-387-3 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Contrastive research; Bologna process; Writing cultures; Higher education; Writing competence; Writing didactics |
| Subject (DDC): | 808: Rhetoric and writing |
| Abstract: | The article sets out with the question of how writing cultures in a multilingual setting of 50 countries and even more languages like Europe can be studied. Each country formed its own system of higher education and looks back to its own lines of teaching traditions. In spite of attempts to “harmonize” higher education through what is called the “Bologna Process”, communication on writing in Europe is still lacking a consistent terminology, especially on genre and writing practices. The article gives a short overview on genre theory and defines what “educational genres” are and how they develop. Examples are given on their relationships to writing practices and writing cultures. The contribution of contrastive and cross-cultural research to an understanding of national writing cultures is discussed and difficulties in interpreting contrastive studies are mentioned. Writing and genre use, it is argued, are framed by a large set of context conditions like classroom practices, curricular organization, institutional and disciplinary writing cultures as well as national and language-specific conditions so that it is difficult to interpret results from contrastive research. By outlining the writing cultures of France, Germany, Italy, and Romania, four examples are given of how national cultures may develop and which role genres play in shaping writing practices. The article concludes with some remarks on developmental trends of writing cultures. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/8727 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Language Competence (ILC) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Chitez, M., & Kruse, O. (2012). Writing cultures and genres in european higher education. In M. Castelló & C. Donahue (Eds.), University writing : selves and texts in academic societies (pp. 151–175). Emerald.
Chitez, M. and Kruse, O. (2012) ‘Writing cultures and genres in european higher education’, in M. Castelló and C. Donahue (eds) University writing : selves and texts in academic societies. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 151–175.
M. Chitez and O. Kruse, “Writing cultures and genres in european higher education,” in University writing : selves and texts in academic societies, M. Castelló and C. Donahue, Eds. Bingley: Emerald, 2012, pp. 151–175.
CHITEZ, Madalina und Otto KRUSE, 2012. Writing cultures and genres in european higher education. In: Montserrat CASTELLÓ und Christiane DONAHUE (Hrsg.), University writing : selves and texts in academic societies. Bingley: Emerald. S. 151–175. ISBN 978-1-78052-386-6
Chitez, Madalina, and Otto Kruse. 2012. “Writing Cultures and Genres in European Higher Education.” In University Writing : Selves and Texts in Academic Societies, edited by Montserrat Castelló and Christiane Donahue, 151–75. Bingley: Emerald.
Chitez, Madalina, and Otto Kruse. “Writing Cultures and Genres in European Higher Education.” University Writing : Selves and Texts in Academic Societies, edited by Montserrat Castelló and Christiane Donahue, Emerald, 2012, pp. 151–75.
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