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Table 5 Overview of Ms Michelle’s arrangement in EW I

From: Integrating genre with ethnography as methodology in understanding L2 writing instruction in a Chinese university

Theme

Sub-theme

NO. of slides

Orientation

types of writing overview: narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive/argumentative; different parts of an essay; professional emails; résumés

16

Introduction

hook; thesis statement

10

Body

building on the claims stated in the thesis statement; applicable to any type of writing; using details instead of claims if doing more of a narrative style

16

Conclusions

restate opinion; look towards the future; ask questions

10

Emails

purposes: to complain, inform, advertise, apologise, etc.; tone: informal, neutral, formal

21

Résumés

layout and key components

27