Developing Writing Skills for Professional Purposes

This paper is an attempt to reiterate some of the broad policy decisions that are mentioned in Roe's article (1994) Bnd to elaborate some of their corollaries for the professional strand of the Project. The paper also attempts to provide the perspectives necessary to see how the Project relate...

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Main Author: Nesamalar Chitravelu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 1994-12-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
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Online Access:https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3575
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spelling doaj-art-ebe36435a5c14913b586d3e4c50edfd52025-08-20T01:53:29ZengUniversiti MalayaJournal of Modern Languages1675-526X2462-19861994-12-0181Developing Writing Skills for Professional PurposesNesamalar Chitravelu0University of Malaya, Malaysia This paper is an attempt to reiterate some of the broad policy decisions that are mentioned in Roe's article (1994) Bnd to elaborate some of their corollaries for the professional strand of the Project. The paper also attempts to provide the perspectives necessary to see how the Project relates to national aspirations and needs since a central thesis of this research enterprise is that 'language is an instrument of social process’, that it is a tool for getting things done and that any meaningful yardstick devised for evaluating language outcomes must necessarily include the context within which the language tasks are to be performed. https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3575professional writing; Roe's project; language context
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Developing Writing Skills for Professional Purposes
Journal of Modern Languages
professional writing; Roe's project; language context
title Developing Writing Skills for Professional Purposes
title_full Developing Writing Skills for Professional Purposes
title_fullStr Developing Writing Skills for Professional Purposes
title_full_unstemmed Developing Writing Skills for Professional Purposes
title_short Developing Writing Skills for Professional Purposes
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topic professional writing; Roe's project; language context
url https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3575
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