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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education

Table 7 What academic writers need to know (Tribble, 2002, p. 131)

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

Content knowledge

knowledge of the concepts involved in the subject area

Writing process knowledge

knowledge of the most appropriate way of carrying out a specific writing task

Context knowledge

knowledge of the social context in which the text will be read, and co-texts related to the writing task in hand

Language system knowledge

knowledge of those aspects of the language system necessary for the completion of the task

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