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teaching writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Raimes, A. (1992). Exploring through writing (2nded.). New York: St Martin's Press.Raimes, A. (1993). Out of the woods: Emerging traditions in the teaching ofwriting.In S. Silberstein (Ed.), State of the Art: TESOL essays[r]

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most undergrad-uate courses, and it is not unusual for students to have to produce up to adozen written assignments per term (Horowitz, 1986a). Even some multi-ple-choice tests—such as the TOEFL, ACT, or SAT—incorporate an essaycomponent designed to measure test takers' writing proficiencies.[r]

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teacher-training courses, workshops, and MA-level programs inTESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) has also become com-monplace in U.S. education.The emergence of L2 writing courses, teacher-training programs, andtextbooks is not particularly surprising given college/university[r]

grammar and vocabulary thatL2 writers must have to construct academic text, which in turn can be orga-nized into a coherent written academic discourse). To put it plainly, no mat-ter how well discourse is organized or how brilliant the writer's ideas may be,it would