The Academic Literacies approach to scholarly writing: a view through the lens of the ESP/Genre approach

I first briefly review two paradigms for scholarly writing, namely the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Academic Literacies (Ac Lits) approaches. ESP has traditionally been considered as the dominant paradigm and Ac Lits as somewhat on the margins of academic writing theory and practice. My aim in this article is to illustrate which areas and methodologies from ESP, especially corpus-based techniques, could usefully inform Ac Lits. The...