ABSTRACT
Genre analysis has become an important approach to text analysis, especially in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The work of Swales (1981, 1990), in particular, has generated a more focused approach to the teaching of academic writing to non-native postgraduate students or young academics learning to write in their subject. This approach has been much influenced by the work of writing scholars (e.g. Bazerman 1988; Myers 1990a) who have taken on board the findings of the sociology of science, but remains within the ESP and discourse analysis tradition.
