Academic Writing for Multilingual Graduate Students Workshop Series: Using the Field, Tenor, and Mode Framework in Writing

This bi-weekly workshop series is designed for multilingual graduate students with limited experience writing academic English, “proficient users” with a dominant language other than English, as well as students whose dominant language is English. It is equally concerned with developing academic writers as it is improving academic texts.  Register for sessions that you're interest in: 

Using the Field, Tenor, and Mode Framework in Writing
Old to New Information Flow;
Paragraph Patterns;
Controlling the Theme;
Writing Problem Solution Text;
Constructing Effective Introductions and Conclusions

 Textbooks

  • Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. B. (2021). Academic writing for graduate students: Essential tasks and skills (4th ed.). University of Michigan Press. 
    Note: A PDF will be distributed to all participants during the first session.
     
  • Caplan, N. (2020). Grammar choices for academic and professional writers. University of Michigan Press.
    Note: Optional textbook, available at Belzberg Library.
     

About the workshop

Using the Field, Tenor, and Mode Framework to support EAL Students’ Writing

In this session, you will explore the Field, Tenor, and Mode framework, which examines how language simultaneously conveys three layers of meaning: the content or subject matter (Field), the relationship between writer and reader (Tenor), and the medium or mode of communication (Mode). You will learn to analyze texts through this framework to better understand how these elements interact to shape your message effectively. By applying this approach, you’ll develop strategies to produce clear, contextually appropriate texts that resonate with your audience. 

Audience
Graduate
Category
EAL/ESL
Writing

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