Writing Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The myths discussed in this book are: Myth 1: Teaching Vocabulary is not the Writing Teacher's Job.
Keith S. Folse Myth 2: Teaching Citation is Someone Else's Job
Cynthia M. Schuemann Myth 3: Where Grammar is Concerned, One Size Fits All Pat Byrd and John Bunting Myth 4: Academic Writing Should be Assertive and Certain
Ken Hyland Myth 5: Students Must Learn to Correct all their Writing Errors
Dana Ferris Myth 6: Corpus-based Research is too Complicated to be Useful for Writing Teachers
Susan Conrad Myth 7: Academic Writing Courses Should Focus on Paragraph and Essay Development
Sharon Cavausgil Myth 8: International and U.S. Resident ESL Writers Cannot be Taught in the Same Class

Paul Kei Matsuda Myth 9: Students' Myth about Academic Writing and Teaching Joy Reid

This volume was conceived as a "best practices" resource for writing teachers in the way that Vocabulary Myths by Keith S. Folse is one for reading and vocabulary teachers. It was written to help ensure that writing teachers are not perpetuating the myths of teaching writing.

Each author is a practicing teacher who selected his or her "myth" based on classroom experience and expertise. Both the research and pedagogy in this book are based on the newest research in, for example, teacher preparation, EAP and ESP, and corpus linguistics.