 THE DIVERSITY OF THE STUDENT’S PORTFOLIO (ESP)Ilina Doykova ()
Economic Science, education and the real economy: Development and interactions in the digital age, 2020, issue 1, 635-644 Abstract: Academic writing tasks in English for specific purposes are generally quite formal, objective (impersonal) and technical. In the present paper the four main types of academic writing (descriptive, analytical, persuasive and critical) and their specific text features are discussed from a text linguistic perspective. The student‘s portfolio has been introduced as part of the overall students‘ assessment in English for Pharmacy, Dentistry and Medicine at MU-Varna. Narrative and reflection text types found in students‘ writing samples suggest genre mixing and no clear template for writing a short assignment that distil technical information to its scientific essence. Our aim is to provide a framework for its structure, length, discourse modes, formality, and lexico-grammatical characteristics as a discipline-specific text type that can be effectively applied for summative assessment purposes in tertiary education. Keywords: academic writing; text typology; portfolio-based learning; e-assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrn:cfdide:y:2020:i:1:p:635-644 Access Statistics for this article Economic Science, education and the real economy: Development and interactions in the digital age is currently edited by Zoya Mladenova More articles in Economic Science, education and the real economy: Development and interactions in the digital age from Publishing house Science and Economics Varna Contact information at EDIRC. |
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