Genres In The Development of ESL Academic and Business Writing
Table 1:
The genres of academic written speech | The genres of academic oral speech |
Monograph, research article, scientific and technical text (instructions, manuals, safety rules, etc.), patents, dissertation, scientific and educational prose (textbooks, teaching AIDS, etc.), abstracts, summaries, reports, lectures, discussions, genres of popular science literature | Monological: report, review, presentation of course paper or diploma |
Dialogical: seminar scientific discussion and academic conversation |