The Enhancement of the academic staff ‘academic writing performance exploiting explicit instruction of Genre knowledge & academic reading

The Enhancement of the academic staff ‘academic writing performance exploiting explicit instruction of Genre knowledge & academic reading

As the Iranian academic staff are in increasingly in need to write their paper in English to be published in the prestigious international journals, one of the strategies to overcome the difficulties aroused in writing academic paper is obtaining some knowledge about text genre. This study aimed at examining the possible impact of the instruction of genre –based writing instruction and extensive academic reading on the academic staff ‘writing performance. To do this end, a course was provided to two homogenous groups of academic staff as an experimental and a control group; exploiting explicit instruction of the genre based pedagogy about academic text and extensive academic reading to the experimental group. Having run ten sessions of instruction, the performances of the two groups were compared with each other through administering a post test. The findings were indicative of the effective role of genre knowledge texts on academic staffs’ writing performance.