This textbook is designed for college students who are learning to write based on genre. it provides information about the natures and characteristics of fifteen different types of texts commonly required for academic purposes such as count, narrative, spoof, anecdote, descriptive, report, explanation, procedure, hortatory exposition, analytical exposition, discussion, news item, commentary, book review, and critical review.
What makes this book more interesting is its perspective of genre itself. it views genre in two ways: as a type of writing text and as an approach to teaching and learning writing. Therefore, the book focuses not only on what and how to write but also on how to teach and learning writing itself.
In short, this book attempts to present more details of the fifteen types of texts by systematically guiding learners to learn each of them through steps beginning from brainstorming, modelling texts, joint construction, and independent construction of the writing. in addition, this book also provides and guides the students to assess task of writing in terms of genre perspective. To do so, a unique and typical assessment rubric is also introduced at the end of each chapter, which is very informative to both learners and teachers.